Making Moves: Houston

The National Center for Choreography-Akron (NCCAkron) will present Making Moves: Houston on January 14, 2026 at Brazos Bookstore. Making Moves: Houston is a free panel discussion featuring contributing authors from Artists on Creative Administration as well as local arts case studies. Panelists will include Houston native and NCCAkron Founding Executive/Artistic Director Christy Bolingbroke (Akron, OH), Stacey Allen, Founder and Artistic Director of Nia’s Daughters Movement Collective, Harrison Guy, Founder of Urban Souls Dance Company and Marlana Walsh Doyle, President of Institute Contemporary Dance; Artistic & Executive Director of Houston Contemporary Dance Company.

Making Moves: Houston Panelists 

Stacey Allen, Founder and Artistic Director of Nia’s Daughters Movement Collective

Christy Bolingbroke, Executive/Artistic Director of NCCAkron and Artists on Creative Administration (AOCA) contributing author

Harrison Guy, Founder of Urban Souls Dance Company

Marlana Walsh Doyle, President of Institute Contemporary Dance; Artistic & Executive Director of Houston Contemporary Dance Company

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.