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The National Center for Choreography - Akron (NCCAkron) supports working dance artists as they experiment, engage in the creative process, and advocate for their work and for the field.
Photo credits: Above video contains images courtesy Dale Dong Photography, Mike Crupi, and Jonny Riese
All Levels LGBTQI+ Friendly Community Class with Sean Dorsey Dance
Join transgender choreographer Sean Dorsey (San Francisco, CA) and his company for all-levels, super-friendly workshop held at Center for Applied Theatre & Active Culture on Thursday, September 4, 2025. This class will led us through mindful breathing, meditation, a gentle warmup, movement exercises … and then creative self-expression through movement! For ALL humans and ALL identities and ALL levels – including terrified “non-dancers”! Please join us for this super-friendly and welcoming workshop (especially if you’re terrified!). All are welcome!
Pictured: Sean Dorsey
Black by Nature Work-in-Process Showing
The National Center for Choreography-Akron (NCCAkron) will host a work-in-process showing of Akron choreographer Dominic Moore-Dunson’s latest work, Black by Nature. This free event will take place twice on October 5, 2025 at 12:30pm and 3:00pm at Summit Metro Parks Prather Trail.
Black By Nature features dance, spoken word, and live acoustic guitar by Akron jazz guitarist Dan Wilson. This special showing-on-the-go will take place outdoors in Summit Metro Parks, reflecting Moore-Dunson’s research to date and creating a layered, sensory experience in nature. Black By Nature explores Black identity in relationship to natural spaces—interrogating safety, grief, and redemption. It asks what it means to be Black in nature, and how returning to the land might offer both confrontation and healing.
Pictured: Dominic Moore-Dunson
Stream Season Six of Inside the Dancer's Studio
NCCAkron has launched the sixth season of Inside the Dancer’s Studio, a podcast that brings listeners into the process of creating dance. Through interviews with choreographers from across the United States, Inside the Dancer’s Studio breaks down the mystique of dance-making into engaging, fun, and deeply human conversations about what moves artists to express their truths through creation and performance.
Artists featured in Season 6 include Kara Jenelle (Los Angeles, CA), Body Watani (Minneapolis, MN), Joe Bowie (Evanston, IL), Reggie Wilson (Brooklyn, NY), BAIRA MVMNT PHLOSPHY (Detroit, MI), George Staib (Atlanta, GA), Raphael Xavier (Philadelphia, PA), Bridgman | Packer Dance (Valley Cottage, NY), Hanna Ali (Miami, FL), Dianne McIntyre (Cleveland, OH), Tiffany Rea-Fisher (New York, NY), Donald Byrd (Seattle, WA), Nia-Amina Minor (Seattle, WA), Donna Uchizono (New York, NY), Kristel Baldoz (Queens, NY), and David Roussève (West Hollywood, CA).
Read the press release for more information.
Pictured left to right, top to bottom (photo credit): Packer and Bridgman (courtesy of the artists), KJ (Wes Klain), Roussève (courtesy of the artist), Uchizono (Matthew Murphy), Baldoz (courtesy of the artist), McIntyre (McKinley Wiley), Rea-Fisher (Lisa Keegan), Body Watani (Sabrina Hammoudeh), Staib (courtesy of Dance/USA), Xavier (Monica Chang), Bowie (courtesy of the artist), Ali (courtesy of YoungArts), Byrd (courtesy of Spectrum Dance Theater), Minor (Devin Muñoz), and BAIRA (Effy Grey).
OUR IMPACT
NCCAkron aims to foster geographic equity and to fulfill our potential as a national center. We commit to supporting a stronger, more visibly connected network focused on research and development across the dance ecosystem.
