Making Moves: Memphis

The National Center for Choreography-Akron (NCCAkron) will present Making Moves: Memphis on Saturday, April 25 at the Memphis Listening Lab. Making Moves: Memphis This free event will include case studies exploring themes of arts ecosystem building, adaptive thinking, and applying creative practices to administrative operations.  Panelists will include NCCAkron Founding Executive/Artistic Director Christy Bolingbroke (Akron, OH) and other artists to be announced.

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.