Dancing Around Race is a community engagement social practice that challenges systemic racial inequity in the dance field. Dancing Around Race uses embodied practice, facilitation, consultation, educational modeling, discussions, lectures, presentations, and workshops as guidance for equitable dance practices, and champions a spectrum of aesthetic perspectives.

Join us in New York on April 21, 2022 for a Dancing Around Race workshop at Baryshnikov Arts Center:

Dancing Around Race – Cultivating Racial Equity and Absolute Belonging
Thursday, April 21, 2022, 5:30-7:00pm
Baryshnikov Art Center / John Cage and Merce Cunningham Studio
450 West 37th Street, New York NY, 10018

Through a series of longtable conversations along with movement provocations, participants will be asked to explore their relationships to power, social position, and where and how they exist within systems and institutions of dance education, performance, and production. They will also be asked to share something about their dance training (and teachers), reflecting on the ancestral legacies they hold. Those who attend will also be encouraged to develop an embodied manifesto that aligns ongoing, lasting actions with values of equity and absolute belonging.

Dancing Around Race has its own website! Visit www.dancingaroundrace.com to learn about its initiatives and leadership.

Photography by Shinichi Iova-Koga, Scott Horton, Crystal Birns, Deeksha Prakash, and Randy Basso.