Dance Discourse Project

The Dance Discourse Project (2007 – 2016) was a far reaching, far ranging, ambitious project that aimed to articulate in a cohesive and coherent way, from the participants themselves, what is happening in dance in the Bay Area and beyond.  Topics of discussion have included site-specific dance, performance and technology, dance criticism, post-multiculturalism, and dancing politics, among others. The Dance Discourse Project took place 2-3 times a year.

Discussions

#1. Bay Area Dance: Where Are We Now?

#2. Investigating the Post Multi-Culturalism Landscape

#3. Dancers Debate the Body Politic

#4. Media, Technology and Performance

#5. Writing About Dance

#6. Site-Specific Dance in the Bay Area

#7. Dancing Diaspora

#8. Dance in Pop Culture

#9. Dance and Somatics in the Bay Area

#10. Are we trapped in a static presenting model?

#11. Food and Dance on Stage Together

#12. Shifting Ground: Examining the complex terrain at the intersection of dance and aging

#13. Dancing in the Museum

#14. SMALL in the Bay Area

#15. Street Dance

#16: Judith Butler on Gender and Performativity

#17. Sex and Performance in the Bay Area

#18. Exploring Choreographic Thinking

#19. Re-imagining Our Cultural Commons: Making Spaces for Dance

#20. ALL THE PRACTICE: What we’re really making…

#21. Dreaming the Future Landscape

#22. animal, human, posthuman

#23. Visioning a More Human Dwelling Place