Upcoming Long Tables: Abrons, Gibney, Dance/NYC

Eva Yaa Asantewaa
(photo: Deneka Peniston)

Upcoming Long Tables


A Long Table conversation--as first conceived by theater artist Lois Weaver--is initiated by an invited core group of participants who "set the table" with food for thought, but it is open, throughout, to other folks, sitting around the perimeter, who can come up and take seats at the table to share their experiences, ideas, questions and insights in a non-hierarchical, non-panel/Q&A setting. They are not so much "audience members" as a listening and contributing community.

So, please join us! Listen in and/or pull up a chair at our table to share your thoughts and questions. Admission is free, except where noted.

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Thursday, November 30 (7-9pm): DISCOMFORT: A Long Table. Presented and hosted by Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, Manhattan. Curated/facilitated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa/EYA Projects. Core participants: Ash RT Yergens, Dan Fishback, Joya Powell, NIC Kay. DISCOMFORT makes space for dance, performance and other artists to talk about the place of discomfort in our lives, processes, practices and relationships with collaborators, audiences, our society and world.

Wednesday, February 7 (6:30-8:30pm): Long Table: Sexual Harassment in the Dance Industry. Presented and hosted by Center Line, Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, 280 Broadway (enter 53A Chambers Street), Manhattan. Curated/facilitated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa/EYA Projects. Core participants: Gabri Christa, Katy Pyle, Nicole Wolcott and Siobhan Burke

Sunday, February 25 (time tbd): Decolonizing Dance: A Long Table. Presented and hosted by Dance/NYC Symposium 2018 at Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, 280 Broadway (enter 53A Chambers Street), Manhattan. Curated/facilitated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa/EYA Projects. Core participants (list in formation): André M. Zachery, Ayodele Casel, J Soto, Layla Zami. Admission with Dance/NYC Symposium 2018 registration. Click here.

Wednesday, April 25 (6:30-8:30pm): Decolonizing Dance: A Long Table. Hosted by Center Line, Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, 280 Broadway (enter 53A Chambers Street), Manhattan. Curated/facilitated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa/EYA Projects. Core participants: (list tba)

Community Long Tables are also in the works for BAX (Brooklyn Arts Exchange) and Dancing While Black in 2018. Keep watch for more information!

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