Archiving Fellowships Blog: World Arts West, Part 1
Archiving Fellow Sumi Matsumoto reflects on her first summer working with World Arts West to develop an archival database that will support a web portal making available the rich archives of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival.
Community Builders: Transmission and Legacies of Immigrant American Artists
Immigrant artists are culture-bearers. They dedicate their lives to teaching and creating works of significant artistic and cultural value while building consequential communities in their adopted country.
‘What Are You?’ Dancemaking and the Hyphenated Other
Otherness is pernicious in the dance world. Three artists with indigenous or immigrant perspectives embrace, push against and integrate their identities with social consciousness.
The Election Year, #Dance2Vote and Top Issues Impacting the Dance Community
The dance sector is an economic driver in the U.S. Learn more on reaching elected officials, fall COVID-19 federal relief initiatives, and Dance/USA’s #Dance2Vote campaign.
Choreographing Disability Justice
In the Disability Arts Movement, a growing field of artists produce exciting and probing work, among them are Atlanta’s Laurel Lawson and San Francisco Bay Area’s Antoine Hunter.
Archiving and Preservation During COVID-19: Part 2
How to harness your dance company resources during the global pandemic for engaging audiences and preserving your archival assets. Hear from a dance archivist and a company director.
Archiving and Preservation During COVID-19, Part 1
Now is a great time to assess, manage and utilize your archival and digital assets. Overwhelmed by the explosion in digital content that needs to be preserved? Read on.
Dance/USA Institute for Leadership Training Pair: Katerina Wong and Amy Miller
Dance/USA matches mentors with rising arts administrators to enhance leadership and decision-making skills and gain a broader perspective on the field. Read about one mentor-mentee match.
Conjuring Movement and Social Change in the Now
These DFA artists engage in revolutionary performance work in the Black tradition — “Radical Black Performance” that interrogates the Black experience, past, present and future.
Leadership During Crisis: Jaamil Olawale Kosoko
“The intersectional grief that I’m feeling in the wake of so much deep loss is asking me to develop a more intimate relationship with grieving,” said choreographer Jaamil Olawale Kosoko.