Updated information: new time; location and additional panelists announced
Dance/NYC plans to revisit the issue of race in dance, this time with a focus on arts administration, on Thursday, November 20, 7-9pm.
Moderator: Baraka Sele
Columbia Graduate Ebonie Pittman will reveal her findings from a six-month endeavor researching the state of race in dance behind the scenes of the dance community. Is there a lack of diversity on dance boards? Who is really running culturally-specific organizations? Does the administration mirror what is presented on stage? In light of our recent Presidential selection, do you think the discussion will end and should it? Come discuss and debate the issue with the field.
George Banks, Author, The Issue of Race
Sharon Williams, Director of Development, Dance Theatre of Harlem
Cassandra Oliveras, Director of Marketing, Ballet Hispanico
*more panelists TBA
Location:
The Ailey Studios
405 West 55th Street (at 9th Ave.)
Free with required online reservation: Click here.
Dance/NYC plans to revisit the issue of race in dance, this time with a focus on arts administration, on Thursday, November 20, 7-9pm.
Moderator: Baraka Sele
Columbia Graduate Ebonie Pittman will reveal her findings from a six-month endeavor researching the state of race in dance behind the scenes of the dance community. Is there a lack of diversity on dance boards? Who is really running culturally-specific organizations? Does the administration mirror what is presented on stage? In light of our recent Presidential selection, do you think the discussion will end and should it? Come discuss and debate the issue with the field.
George Banks, Author, The Issue of Race
Sharon Williams, Director of Development, Dance Theatre of Harlem
Cassandra Oliveras, Director of Marketing, Ballet Hispanico
*more panelists TBA
Location:
The Ailey Studios
405 West 55th Street (at 9th Ave.)
Free with required online reservation: Click here.
Hi Eva,
ReplyDeleteI saw Akim Funk Buddha Sunday. I had never seen him dance, only his throat singing with Bill T. Jones. The show was awesome! He did "Urban Tea Ceremony" with Akiko Tokuoka a.k.a.Funky Geisha, and also "Master of my Element" in Urban Roots at Danspace. It was a great election week celebration and the house was full to the brim with young people.
:)Lori
Thanks for your comment, Lori! That's wonderful to hear!
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen Akim Funk Buddha's performance in a long while, but I remember meeting him and taking a throat singing workshop with him at a little music shop here in the East Village.
I'm looking forward to all the ways that the arts will be celebrating and channeling the new energy in the country and participating in ways that only the arts can as we move forward. It's a good time to be alive and to be involved and stay involved!