2022 Organizing with Artists for Change Winter Institute

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Experience the power and potential of intergenerational artmaking during Dance Exchange’s 2022 Organizing with Artists for Change (OAC) Winter Institute.

January 7-9, 2022 via Zoom

Update as of December 20: To keep our community healthy and safe during this latest Covid-19 surge, we are moving the 2022 Winter Institute entirely online.

Join movers, makers, artists, and leaders from communities near and far to explore tools and practices for collaborating and creating across generations. This Institute explores intergenerational collaboration through Dance Exchange’s creative tools and practices and introduces participants to artists and collaborators connected to our ongoing project, Of Equal Place: Isotopes in Motion.

As part of our Organizing with Artists for Change Initiative (OAC), Dance Exchange Institutes embrace process and performance, dialogue and dancemaking, and the role of artists as changemakers. The 2022 OAC Winter Institute will include movement classes and workshops that delve into creative tools and practices from Dance Exchange as well as our peers and collaborators. Facilitation of the 2022 OAC Winter Institute will rotate each day to include a range of voices and perspectives including Dance Exchange staff and partnering artists.

Schedule

All times listed are Eastern Time (ET). All sessions will take place via Zoom. Zoom link will be emailed upon registration.

Friday, January 7: 

  • 4:30 - 6:00pm ET: Welcome and orientation

Saturday, January 8: 

  • 11:00am - 12:00pm: Online movement class with Corina Iona Dalzell and Judith Bauer

  • 12:00 - 12:15pm: Break 

  • 12:15 - 12:50pm: Class debrief discussion with Amanda Newman

  • 12:50 - 1:15pm: Lunch

  • 1:15 - 3:15pm: Creative tools and practices online session with Ami Dowden-Fant and Missy Lilje

  • 3:30 - 4:30pm: Screening and virtual discussion of intergenerational performances and work with Cassie Meador

Sunday, January 9: 

  • 12:00 - 1:00pm: Online movement class with Clarence Brooks and Shawn Brush

  • 1:00 - 1:15pm: Break

  • 1:15 - 2:45pm: Creative tools and practices online session with Clarence Brooks and Esther Geiger

  • 3:00 - 5:00pm: Creative reflection, synthesis, and closing session with Chisao Hata, Cassie Meador, and Amanda Newman 

Sliding Scale Registration: $30 - $100

We recognize this is a challenging financial time for those in the arts and related fields. If price is a barrier to your participation, please choose from our sliding scale of tuition options. If you are able to pay full tuition, doing so helps supports our artists and sustain our work into the future.

Technology Requirements

Participants will join sessions via Zoom, so a wifi-enabled device with a camera and microphone as well as a stable internet connection are necessary for meaningful participation. If you are interested in the Institute but are looking for alternative ways to participate based on your technology access and needs, please contact us.

Shula Strassfeld Memorial Scholarship

Each year, we award a scholarship to a Winter Institute participant in honor of Shula, a longtime DX company member, loving mother, devoted friend, and always an advocate that everyone dance as much as possible. This full-tuition scholarship, generously funded by Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario, is awarded to a participant who mirrors Shula's dedication to creative aging and/or who shares a connection to her Jewish identity, which played a significant role in her creative practice. Register for Winter Institute by Dec. 15 to be considered for the scholarship.

Questions?

With questions, please email registration@danceexchange.org or call (301) 270-6700. 

We look forward to gathering, moving and making with you in January.


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