As always, this Dance Discourse Project event is free.
CounterPulse and Dancers’ Group are proud to present Dance Discourse Project #20: ALL THE PRACTICE: What we're really making…, featuring guest moderators Jesse Hewit and Larry Arrington, hosted at Z Space.
DDP #20 will address, question and unpack the notions of practice and making in relation to dance. Hewit and Arrington will be joined by panelists Dia Dear, Nina Haft, Margaret Jenkins, Brontez Purnell, and Sara Shelton Mann—toget...
As always, this Dance Discourse Project event is free.
CounterPulse and Dancers’ Group are proud to present Dance Discourse Project #20: ALL THE PRACTICE: What we're really making…, featuring guest moderators Jesse Hewit and Larry Arrington, hosted at Z Space.
DDP #20 will address, question and unpack the notions of practice and making in relation to dance. Hewit and Arrington will be joined by panelists Dia Dear, Nina Haft, Margaret Jenkins, Brontez Purnell, and Sara Shelton Mann—together with the audience—to engage deeply in this conversation.
Hewit and Arrington invite the public to “join us as we come together to grapple with questions like: How do we address a dominant system of values about art, in which the worth of our artistry is measured by our ability to produce a string of sellable art-objects/deliverables? How do we insist on the value of our practices; the actions that exist long before and after our "pieces" are done, our funding is dry, and our careers have likely been made socio-economically impossible? Shouldn't we be dismantling the notion that artists are people who produce things, inside of capitalism, for other people to experience or have, and instead be expanding the reality that artists are actually people whose personal and creative practices are rigorous locations for imagining change? Shouldn't creative practice be an expanded concept that more people can identify themselves in? Let's rally around practice, look at it closely, let it compose our reality, honor it obsessively, and allow it to give us connectivity, catharsis, and criticality.”
Learn more at http://dancersgroup.org/presents/ddp/