Dance/NYC is pleased to announce confirmed speakers for the Dance/NYC 2022 Symposium, which will take place from Thursday, March 17 to Saturday, March 19, 2022 as a hybrid event including both online and in-person activities at Hunter College. As the only multi-day gathering of its kind for the dance community in the metropolitan New York City area, the Symposium is a meeting place for members of the dance field to exchange ideas, expand networks, sharpen organizational practices, and deepen the inquiry around New York City’s legacy and trajectory of dance-making. For more information and to register, visit Dance.NYC/DanceSymp.
 
Dance/NYC’s 2022 Symposium – entitled Life cycles. Livelihoods. Legacies. – will focus on uncovering the generational continuum of lives in dance. Sessions will explore career and life navigation, underscoring dance and artistic practice as core human needs while building understanding across generations of audiences and dance workers. This multi-day event invites participants to investigate topics of mentorship, advocacy, leadership, and equity, within an ethos of community care.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Corbett Joan OToole, Disabled Dance Advocate
Sarah Wilbur, Assistant Professor/Director of Graduate Studies, Duke University Dance Program
 
Confirmed Speakers:
Alexandra Beller, Artistic Director of Alexandra Beller/Dances
Alice Sheppard, Kinetic Light
Alison Kopit, Disability Dance Artistry Resident, Dance/NYC
Andre Bouchard, Executive Creative Producer
Beverly Lopez, Artistic Director, REDi Dance Company, Dancer, Choreographer, Teaching Artist
Darian Marcel Parker, PhD, Guest Professor of West African Dance, The Juilliard School
Judith McCarty, Artistic Director, Afro-Afriqué
Kyle Dacuyan, Executive Director, The Poetry Project
Maya Simone Z., Interdisciplinary Artist & Advocate, Dance/NYC Junior Committee
nia love, Choreographer, Artist, Assistant Professor (adjunct) at Queens College
Paula Sánchez-Kucukozer, Manager and Founding Member, Son Pecadores
Sahasra Sambamoorthi, CEO, Navatman
Sarah Chien, Independent Dance Artist
Stacie Webster, Teacher & Choreographer, Broadway Dance Center
Sydnie Liggett-Dennis, Executive Director, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham