A veteran writer, curator and community educator, she won the 2017 Bessie Award for Outstanding Service to the Field of Dance. x’s first publicly curated exhibition, “who is me?”, was on view at the Tompkins County Public Library in 2018, focused on the intersectionality of artists who had multiple marginalized identities additional curatorial credits include, co-curator with Stigma Unbound for “delicate wash cycle”, the virtual festival fundraiser, “Soft Pallette”, and the January 2020 web gallery, “VIRAL: A Contagious Kiss, a Transmittable Video” presented by Visual AIDS.Įva Yaa Asantewaa (she/her) is the founder of Black Curators in Dance and Performance and works at Gibney as Senior Director of Curation as well as Editorial Director. As a curator, x is concerned about diversity and the empowerment of artist-humans of systemically marginalized identities. Recent notable accomplishments include: City Artist Corps grant, LiftOff Residency at New Dance Alliance, Fellowship with The Performance Project University Settlement, and Needing It-a queer performance residency-with Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX). They founded the artivist collective,, x directed, choreographed, produced, and performed as a soloist in their original protest-production, The Contemplative Garden: Nature is Healing (10 Rajas, 11 Feathers, and a Dozen White Kelly’s) in October 2020 at Le Petit Versailles Garden as part of Allied Productions, Inc. x has presented installation, painting, video, and live performance in Detroit, MI Budapest, HU Ithaca, NY and NYC (including Dixon Place, Judson Church, Satellite Art Club, Honey’s Bar, and Starr Bar). X (they/themme) is a TRANSdisciplinary artist, choreographer, and curator. Mellon Foundation. The Symposium Programming Committee exists to advise Dance/NYC in the programming and direction of Dance/NYC’s yearly Symposium-and, by extension, further the dance field in NYC. The guest curator program works to ensure that Dance/NYC is in alignment with, and amplifies the voices of, the communities it aims to serve and is made possible through the generous support of The Andrew W. For more information about accessibility or if you require additional reasonable accommodation, please contact Brinda Guha via email at Curators and Symposium Programming Committee: 1 during the event for technical support, to propose questions, or to comment. If the chat features are not accessible to you, contact our voice-only helpline at 21, ext. Video descriptions will be provided ahead of the event via the Symposium Participation Guide. Speakers will visually describe themselves and slides and images will be described. Captioning (open and/or closed) and ASL interpretation will be available during the event. Audiences will interact through the Whova conference platform via chat functions or via video and audio presence for select sessions held through the Zoom meeting integration with the Whova platform. Sessions will be primarily discussion and presentation based with sporadic use of videos and/or slides.
This multi-day event invites participants to investigate topics of mentorship, advocacy, leadership, and equity, within an ethos of community care.Īs the only multi-day gathering of its kind for the dance community in the metropolitan New York City area the Symposium is a meeting place for the dance field to exchange ideas, expand networks, sharpen organizational practices, and deepen the inquiry around New York City’s legacy and trajectory of dance-making.Ĭaptioning (open and/or closed) and ASL interpretation will be available during the event. Sessions explore career and life navigation, underscoring dance and artistic practice as core human needs while building understanding across generations of audiences and dance workers. Legacies., focuses on uncovering the generational continuum of lives in dance.
As the only multi-day gathering of its kind for the dance community in the metropolitan New York City area, the Symposium is a meeting place for the dance field to exchange ideas, expand networks, sharpen organizational practices, and deepen the inquiry around New York City’s legacy and trajectory of dance-making.ĭance/NYC’s 2022 Symposium: Life cycles. The Dance/NYC 2022 Symposium takes place from Thursday, March 17 to Saturday March, 19, 2022 as a virtual event convening on Whova, an all-in-one digital conference platform. UPDATE: As of Wednesday, January 26, 2022, the Dance/NYC 2022 Symposium will be held entirely on a virtual platform.
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