Dance. Workforce. Resilience. Initiative
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Redefining Practice | Re-Entering With Care: A Community Town Hall
When: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 from 6 – 7:30 p.m. ET
Where: Zoom Meeting (Link Forthcoming)
Registration: This event has already occurred. Continue on for event details, post-event survey, and session resources.
Accessibility:
ASL interpretation provided by SignNexus.
Closed captioning provided the Viscardi Center.
If you require additional reasonable accommodation, please contact Izzy Dow at least two weeks prior to the event via email at idow@dance.nyc or call 212.966.4452 (voice only).
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About the Event
Redefining Practice | Re-Entering With Care: A Community Town Hall
Curated and organized by the Dance/NYC Junior Committee. Part town hall, part community conversation, this event unpacks what it might mean to “re-enter” the dance field as the NYC dance community begins to resume in-person performances. While the onset of the pandemic marked an abrupt and jarring halt to movement practices, returning to the studio does not have to happen similarly. Using tools drawn both from within the Junior Committee and from Junebug Productions’ “Story Circle” methodology, this event offers ‘redefined practices’ to return to the studio while taking care of physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.
Note: This event features a combination of presentations and interactive activities. Please expect to actively participate.
About the Series
As the landscape for dance as professional practice, living ritual and technical production continues to evolve, Redefining Practice explores how artists and institutions are adapting, unlearning and innovating new ways of being in creation––and the many phases that creation takes––to prioritise new learnings in racial justice, physical/emotional safety, and community care.
Featured Speakers and Organizers - Click speaker names to access their bios:
Featured Speakers
Mario I. Espinoza, Social Worker
The Actor's Fund
Rebecca Fitton, Independent Artist Manager
Dance/NYC Junior Committee
Ami Scherson, Co-Chair
Linda Ryan, Co-Chair
Anna Bjella, Communications Chair
Joan Bradford, Co-Chair
Maya Simone Z., Interdisciplinary Artist & Advocate
Dance/NYC Junior Committee
Stephanie Rivas, Co-Chair
- Programs at The Actors Fund
- Artist Health Insurance Resource Center (AHIRC)
- Career Center - Career Transition for Dancers, Scholarship Program
- Housing Resource Center - Resource for Affordable Housing
- Financial Wellness Program - Budgeting Nuts Bolts
- Friedman Health Clinic - Podiatrist, Gynecologist, General Physician
- Social Services
- HIV/AIDS Initiative
- Women’s Health Initiative
- Disability Support
- Senior Services
- Addiction & Recovery Services
- Dancers’ Resource (Entertainment Assistance Program)
- Emergency Financial Assistance – Meeting Eligibility Criteria
- Mental Health Assessments and Referrals – Based on artists’ needs
- Short-Term Counseling - in-house with a licensed clinician.
- Support Groups for Dancers, and a variety of other supportive and psycho-ed groups like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), to name a few.
- Case Management
- Referrals to other AF programs/services and/or external agencies* (Legal Referrals, Worker’s Compensation, Tax Prep, Estate Planning, etc.)
- UT land acknowledgment
- Arts Business Collaborative ABC Help Desk
- Empire State Development Grant
- Failspace NYC
- Anti-Oppressive Dialog with Dancers, hosted by Okay, Let's Unpack This
- The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory DanceMart
- Freelancers Union
- Symbio Physical Therapy
- Harkness Center for Dance Injuries
- Financial Assistance at Harkness (Ask for Steph if you have questions)
- Dance/NYC Field Wide Call
Dance/NYC's justice, equity, and inclusion initiatives are made possible with leadership support from the Mellon Foundation. Dance/NYC convening is made possible, in part, by support from the Howard Gilman Foundation and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Dance/NYC seeks partners and speakers with a variety of viewpoints for its events with the goal of generating discussion. The inclusion of any partner or speaker does not constitute an endorsement by Dance/NYC of that partner's or speaker's views.