BlackLight Summit 2023

Risk and Regeneration:
New Tools for New Awareness

February 9-11, 2023

 

We need some R&R! Not rest & relaxation, but risk and regeneration. Perhaps even rage & repair. There is no returning to what came before, so how can we fall into new possibilities, realities and ways of being? For this next season, how do we hold that "if no one goes first, how can anyone follow?" BlackLight 2023 is taking the leap into risking wrong, risking right, risking being loved and seen. In order to take these steps, how are we recovering and regenerating? We have lost so much. How can we find who we are and who we want to be? Join us for some much needed R&R.

Through three days of groundbreaking dance performances, inspiring keynote speeches, energizing movement workshops and intimate panel discussions, The Clarice’s BlackLight Summit aims to activate the unimagined possibilities in dance. It is a convening that envisions dance as a conduit to galvanize resilience and inventiveness, and in 2023 offers a combination of free and Pay What You Wish in-person events and free livestream events. Throughout the 2022–23 season, the BlackLight Summit will continue to foster community connection by facilitating a series of mentoring and professional development opportunities, conversations and performances.

Registration is open to all!  Register now to reserve your tickets for all free events and to receive livestream access for virtual events.

 

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Event Performances
BlackLight Summit: Keynote Speech by Ronya-Lee Anderson • IN-PERSON
  • Thu, Feb 9, 2023 . 09:30AM to 10:45AM
BlackLight Summit: Keynote Speech by Ronya-Lee Anderson • LIVESTREAM
  • Thu, Feb 9, 2023 . 09:30AM to 10:45AM
BlackLight Summit: Movement Workshop with Johnnie Cruise Mercer • IN-PERSON
  • Thu, Feb 9, 2023 . 11:00AM to 12:15PM
BlackLight Summit: The Poetics of Rage: Where is the Art Dangerous? • IN-PERSON
  • Thu, Feb 9, 2023 . 02:00PM to 03:15PM
BlackLight Summit: The Poetics of Rage: Where is the Art Dangerous? • LIVESTREAM
  • Thu, Feb 9, 2023 . 02:00PM to 03:15PM
BlackLight Summit: Movement Workshop with Baye & Asa • IN-PERSON
  • Thu, Feb 9, 2023 . 03:30PM to 04:45PM
BlackLight Summit & Fearless New Play Festival: Opening Night Reception • IN-PERSON
  • Thu, Feb 9, 2023 . 06:00PM to 06:45PM
BlackLight Summit: Keep The Light On Performance Series • LIVESTREAM
  • Thu, Feb 9, 2023 . 07:00PM to 09:30PM
BlackLight Summit: Keep The Light On Performance Series • IN-PERSON
  • Thu, Feb 9, 2023 . 07:00PM to 08:30PM
  • Fri, Feb 10, 2023 . 07:00PM to 08:30PM
BlackLight Summit: Keynote Speech by MK Abadoo • IN-PERSON
  • Fri, Feb 10, 2023 . 09:00AM to 10:00AM
BlackLight Summit: Keynote Speech by MK Abadoo • LIVESTREAM
  • Fri, Feb 10, 2023 . 09:00AM to 10:00AM
BlackLight Summit: Movement Workshop with Javier Padilla • IN-PERSON
  • Fri, Feb 10, 2023 . 11:00AM to 12:15PM
BlackLight Summit: Movement Workshop with dani tirrell, Lauren DeVera & paris cyan cian • IN-PERSON
  • Fri, Feb 10, 2023 . 01:00PM to 02:30PM
BlackLight Summit: Who Do We Believe?–The Burden Of Proof and Proving • IN-PERSON
  • Fri, Feb 10, 2023 . 02:45PM to 03:45PM
BlackLight Summit: Who Do We Believe?–The Burden Of Proof and Proving • LIVESTREAM
  • Fri, Feb 10, 2023 . 02:45PM to 03:45PM
BlackLight Summit: Keep The Light On Performance Series • LIVESTREAM
  • Fri, Feb 10, 2023 . 07:00PM to 09:30PM
BlackLight Summit: Movement Workshop with paris cyan cian • IN-PERSON
  • Sat, Feb 11, 2023 . 09:00AM to 10:15AM
BlackLight Summit: Movement Workshop with Shanice Mason & Jamison Curcio • IN-PERSON
  • Sat, Feb 11, 2023 . 10:30AM to 12:00PM
BlackLight Summit & Gibney's Black Diaspora: Empty Chairs, Empty Tables: Waking the Absence with Pathways to Grief & Grieving • LIVESTREAM
  • Sat, Feb 11, 2023 . 12:00PM to 02:00PM
BlackLight Summit: Movement Workshop with Symara Johnson • IN-PERSON
  • Sat, Feb 11, 2023 . 1:30PM
BlackLight Summit: Movement Workshop with Christian A. Warner • IN-PERSON
  • Sat, Feb 11, 2023 . 1:30PM
BlackLight Summit: Movement Workshop with Michael J. Love • IN-PERSON
  • Sat, Feb 11, 2023 . 02:45PM to 03:45PM
BlackLight Summit: Movement Workshop with Mark Caserta • IN-PERSON
  • Sat, Feb 11, 2023 . 02:45PM to 03:45PM
BlackLight Summit: Emerging Artist Lab Presentation
  • Sat, Feb 11, 2023 . 04:00PM to 05:00PM
BlackLight Summit & Dance Place: Last Night the DJ Saved My Life: Who Heals the Healers? • IN-PERSON
  • Sat, Feb 11, 2023 . 07:00PM to 08:00PM
BlackLight Summit & Dance Place: afterGLOW Drag Show • IN-PERSON
  • Sat, Feb 11, 2023 . 08:00PM to 10:00PM