The Gathering 2016—Advocating for Black Female Choreographers in Contemporary Dance—Jan 17, 2016
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2016-01-18

Livestreaming The Gathering 2016: Advocating for Black Female Choreographers in the Contemporary Dance World—from New York City on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday, January 17 at 1pm-4pm PST (San Francisco) / 3pm-6pm CST (Chicago) / 4pm-7pm EST (New York)

Use Twitter hashtag #TheGathering2016 and direct your comments @CamilleABrown. Facilitators' Twitter handles are: @DancingWhileBlk, @PalomaMcGregor, @shanijamila. The Gathering partner Twitter handles are: @NewYorkLiveArts, @TheFieldNYC, @DanceNYC.

Conceived by choreographer Camille A. Brown, The Gathering serves as an open forum for intergenerational black female artists to support one another and to advocate for greater cultural equity and acknowledgement in the contemporary dance world. Ultimately, The Gathering’s collaborative advocacy will enhance the visibility, understanding, exposure, celebration, notoriety, and sustainability of prolific, intergenerational African diaspora female choreographers, leading to more widespread acceptance, appreciation, and publicity in American and global society.

The Gathering 2016
Using a variety of facilitation modes—including story circles, movement synthesis, and intergenerational dialogue—Dancing While Black creator Paloma McGregor and artist/organizer Shani Jamila will lead us in building community and creating “next steps” for the work we each are doing or visioning.

The Gathering 2016 thanks its partners New York Live Arts (NYLA), The Field, and Dance/NYC.

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