Making Moves: DMV

The National Center for Choreography-Akron (NCCAkron) will present Making Moves: DMV on Thursday, August 6 at Red Emma’s Bookstore in Baltimore, MD. Making Moves: DMV is a free event with arts leaders from the region discussing the invisible labor and arts administration processes behind the scenes. This public conversation will include local dance case studies with national relevance that explore themes of labor organizing, adaptive thinking, and the power of community. Speakers include Christy Bolingbroke (Akron, OH), Quynn Johnson (Washington, D.C.) Ryan K. Johnson (Washington, D.C.), taylor knight (College Park, MD/Pittsburgh, PA), Mallory Miller (Washington, D.C.), Tariq Darrell O'Meally (Largo, Maryland), anna thompson (College Park, MD/Pittsburgh, PA) and C. Brian Williams (Washington, D.C.).

NCCAkron is the only currently operating national center for choreography in the U.S., a research and development hub for dance. Artists on Creative Administration: A Workbook from the National Center for Choreography is an arts and creative life book recently published in 2024 by The University of Akron Press. Edited by artist/cultural strategist Tonya Lockyer (Suquamish, WA) this book features essays from and interviews with 30 artists and advocates from the dance and performing arts worlds, sharing first-hand stories of creative administration in action through case studies, interviews, life tools, and experiments.

This event is free and guests are asked to RSVP.