BlackLight Summit Panel Discussion: Knowledge is Power: Gatekeepers and Locksmiths

BlackLight Summit Panel Discussion

Knowledge is Power: Gatekeepers and Locksmiths
Saturday, March 6, 2021 . 1PM
Principal People: 

Krystal Collins • Junior Staff Program Manager, Dance Place

T. Lang • Associate Professor & Founding Department Chair of Dance Performance and Choreography, Spelman College.

Charlie Maybee-Ferrell • Artistic Director, Polymath Performance Project & Adjunct Assistant Professor, Shenandoah University

Sarah Beth Oppenheim • Teaching Artist & Artistic Director–Heart Stück Bernie

Pam Pietro • Academic Director & Associate Arts Professor, NYU Tisch School of the Arts

Dr. James Frazier, moderator • Dean, Florida State University College of Fine Arts

Special Announcement: 

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Accessibility: 

This event includes ASL interpretation and a live transcript.

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In a time where the dance field is  prioritizing access and equity, are spaces of arts learning and arts education constructing bridges, or barriers?

This panel is a conversation about how academic spaces of learning can redefine and reimagine notions of mentorship and scholarship within dance to meet the moment, while preparing for the moments yet to come.

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This event is part of The Clarice’s BlackLight Summit. To interrogate this unique historical moment, the BlackLight Summit seeks to be a spark that ignites daring innovation and reveals the creativity within the dance ecosystem in America. The inaugural BlackLight Summit is a year-long dance initiative that investigates how time, people, possibility and hope can come together to examine legacy, citizenship and scholarship. The summit asks, through the practice of being socially responsible within the arts: How do we create traditions? How do we transform them into enduring legacies?

The peak of the BlackLight Summit is a virtual three-day convening that features roundtable conversations, movement labs and artistic presentations from BlackLight featured artists Micaela Taylor, Johnnie Cruise Mercer, Candace Scarborough and Jamal Abrams. Our initiative aims to re-envision how dance can be a conduit to galvanize imagination, resilience, and inventiveness.

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