Faculty Artist Series: Stern/Andrist Duo
The livestream of this recital will be available for you to watch from home. Please do not come to the building. This performance is not open to a public in-person audience.
Side Step: Graduate Dance Works
Join us for an evening of new dance works filmed and choreographed by graduate students in dance at the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. They will share twelve screendances for a one-night only virtual experience.
Please note: This event will not be available for future viewing. Video and audio recording of this performance is strictly prohibited.
Arts Citizenship Talk (ACTnow): Revelations by Black Women in the Arts–Jazz
BlackLight Summit Panel Discussion: Knowledge is Power: Gatekeepers and Locksmiths
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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BlackLight Summit Keynote Address: The Break, Double Dutch and Nina: Essential Tools for Field Navigation
How does one navigate a field with competing and often obscure roadmaps? How can we dig back, be present and innovate forward, all while being attuned to change; shape shifting as necessary? In this keynote address, Ronya-Lee Anderson guides a call-and-response style dialogue in which BlackLight Summit guests will investigate possible routes together.
BlackLight Summit “Keep The Light On” Performance Series: Candace Scarborough, Jamal Abrams, TL Collective & TheRedProjectNYC
Presented in Partnership with Dance Place
BlackLight Summit Panel Discussion: Undocumented and Uninterrupted: The Privilege of Being Left Alone
What does it feel like to live uninterrupted? For so many marginalized groups within the United States the ability to move through the country unencumbered is a rare privilege. Be it the over-policing of Black and Brown communities; the surveillance of citizens deemed a threat due to religious beliefs, or even the ability of female-identifying people to walk home without being physically/verbally/sexually accosted. In this panel discussion, we ask ourselves: what is the possibility of safety and peace for those that society has categorized as the “other”?
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BlackLight Summit Keynote Address: Still Here!
Reflections on the American ideas …
notions …
beliefs …
privileges of place, belonging and ownership through the lens of subjugation countered by acts of survival, resistance, urgency, creativity and self-determinism.
BlackLight Summit “Keep The Light On” Performance Series: Shanice Mason & Carlo Antonio Villanueva
Presented in Partnership with Dance Place
Opening night of the BlackLight Summit features two mid-career BIPOC dance artists with a strong connection to the DC Metropolitan Area. Following the presentation of digital works by these artists, they will join BlackLight Summit artists Candace Scarborough and Jamal Abrams as well as BlackLight Summit Guest Panelist Aisha White to discuss works and the themes of the Summit: amplifying unfairly silenced voices through action.
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