26 & 27.10.23
CN D Pantin
How do we sustain a practice of global exchange in dance at a time of climate and funding crisis; a time marked by social inequities and cultural upheavals? What are the privileges and abundances, the tools and creative resources that can be shared and imagined in common? Drawing on a rich tradition of choreographic exchange and collaboration, the symposium will gather dance artists, curators, scholars, and funders working on both sides of the Atlantic to reflect upon and speculate on the models and approaches that can best guide future partnerships and cooperative action.
This two-day event features artists dialogues as well as roundtables with experts and one-on-one artists’ dialogues on topics such as choreographing residencies, pedagogy as performance, acts of transmission, and curatorial ecologies.
Curated by Noémie Solomon with the support of an Advisory Committee and the Albertine’s team.
The 2-day symposium will be livestreamed on HowlRound TV, a project of HowlRound Theatre Commons.
The Symposium is part of the Albertine Dance Season: A year-long celebration of the art of dance from inception to performance. Check here for the Season’s programming.
SCHEDULE
Thursday, October 26
9:45am – Welcome
10am – Introduction
10:30am – Roundtable I – PEDAGOGY AS PERFORMANCE
What can hybrid spaces of learning – where pedagogy meets performance and vice-versa – teach curatorial practices? What are the educational and experimental models that drive the development of “creative campuses” and dance programs on both sides of the Atlantic?
Panelists: Raphaëlle Delaunay, Choreographer and dance educator, Program Élan – Centre national de la danse (CN D), Pantin; Joshua Lubin Levy, Director, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT; Noé Soulier, Choreographer and Director, Centre national de Danse Contemporaine (CNDC), Angers; Dr. Julia M. Ritter, Dean, USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, U. of Southern California.
Moderated by Tara Aisha Willis, Performer, curator, and scholar, Chicago.
Response by Ashley Dehoyos Sauder, Curator, Diverseworks, Houston, TX.
11:45am – BREAK
12pm – Artists Provocation I
Linda Hayford (FAIR-E collective) and Alain “Hurrikane” Lauture.
12:45pm – BREAK
2:15pm – Roundtable II – CHOREOGRAPHING RESIDENCIES
Drawing on artistic needs, how can we design malleable infrastructures of care than span extended periods of time and various geographies? How might the creative residency foreground issues of research and deceleration in a product-oriented economy?
Panelists: Edgar Miramontes, Executive and Artistic Director, Center for the Art and Performance (CAP-UCLA), Los Angeles; Elsa Safarti, Director, Espace 1789, Saint-Ouen; Catherine Tsekenis, Executive Director, Centre national de la Danse (CN D), Pantin; Marýa Wethers, Independent Creative Producer & Curator, New York.
Moderated by Judy Hussie-Taylor, Director, Danspace Project, New York.
Response by Ashley Ferro-Murray, Director, Arts Program, Doris Duke Foundation.
3:30pm – BREAK
3:45pm – Artists Provocation II
Emmanuelle Huynh and Tara Lorenzen.
Friday, October 27
9:15 am – Welcome
9:30am – Introduction
10am – Artists Provocation III
Dorothée Munyaneza and Will Rawls
10:45am – BREAK
11:00am – Roundtable III – ACTS OF TRANSMISSION
What is the role of transmission in dance making and curating? How does it play out across practices of composition and performance, preservation and mediation? What are the strategies that enable choreographic works to live on; to reach out to and gather various assemblies thus bridging generational and cultural divides?
Panelists: Anne Collod, Performer and Choreographer; Serge Laurent, Director of Dance and Culture Program, Van Cleef & Arpels; Linda Murray, Curator, Jerome Robbins Dance Collection, NYPL-Performing Arts; David Hamilton Thomson, Choreographer / performer.
Moderated by André Lepecki, Professor Department of Performance Studies and Associate Dean, Center for Research & Study, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
Reponse by Ruth Estévez, Independant curator.
12:15pm – BREAK
1:15pm – Artists Provocation IV
Rachid Ouramdane and Lauren Bakst.
2:00pm – BREAK
2:15pm – Roundtable IV – CURATORIAL ECOLOGIES
What are the roles and responsibilities of dance curators today in regard to various artists, works, collectivities? How can we account for stark social inequalities, as well as the ecological challenges we face while continuing to nurture exchanges locally and internationally?
Panelists: Tanguy Accart, Director of Development and Artistic Projects, Biennale de la danse + Maison de la danse, Lyon; Philip Bither, Senior Curator, Performing Arts, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; Rachid Ouramdane, Choreographer and Director, Chaillot-Théâtre National de la Danse, Paris; Janet Wong, Associate Artistic Director, New York Live Arts.
Moderated by Angela Mattox, Senior Manager of Awardee Engagement, Creative Capital, New York.
Reponse by Ali Rosa Salas, VP of Visual and Performing Arts, Abrons Arts Center, New York.
3:30pm – Conclusions