2021 DX Summer Institute
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Now more than ever, Dance Exchange recognizes the power and potential of artmaking. Join us for the VIRTUAL 2021 Dance Exchange OAC Summer Institute to explore the ways that dance and dancemaking can help us navigate a rapidly changing world. As part of our Organizing with Artists for Change Initiative (OAC), Dance Exchange Institutes embrace process and performance, dialogue and dancemaking, and the role of artists as changemakers.
The 2021 Dance Exchange OAC Summer Institute will include an online Module 1 as well as an optional hybrid Module 2. Those in Maryland and surrounding areas have the opportunity to join an in-person outdoor session at Red Wiggler Farm in Germantown, Maryland. Those joining Module 2 remotely will participate in a online session with Partnering Artists Jamē McCray and Christina Catanese.
Registration Fee:
$100 for Module 1
$160 for Modules 1 and 2
If this is your first Institute with Dance Exchange, you must participate in Module 1 in order to participate in Module 2. If you have participated in an Institute before, you have the option participate in Module 2 only for $60.
Limited scholarships are available. We recognize this is a challenging financial time for those in the arts and related fields. If price is a barrier to your participation, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
Module 1 (online, July 9-11, 2021)
During Module 1, you’ll join movers, makers, artists, and leaders from communities near and far to explore Dance Exchange’s four questions: who gets to dance, where dance happens, what dance is about, and why dance matters. This online Institute will include live online movement classes (adapted for our home spaces), workshops that delve into Dance Exchange creative tools and practices, and independent creative assignments for participants to explore on their own time.
Facilitation of Module 1 will rotate each day to include a range of voices and perspectives from the Dance Exchange network. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about and experience Dance Exchange projects Of Equal Place: Isotopes in Motion and Future Fields.
**Schedule subject to change. All times listed are Eastern Time (ET)**
Friday, July 9:
4:30-6:00pm ET: Welcome and orientation with Judith and Elizabeth
Saturday, July 10:
12:00-1:00pm ET: Live online movement class with Shawn and Esther
1:15-3:15pm ET: DX creative tools and practices session with EJ and Esther
4:00-5:30pm ET: Evening discussion and sharing of faculty work with Institute faculty, moderated by EJ
Sunday, July 11:
12:00-1:00pm ET: Live online movement class with Christina and Cassie
1:15-3:15pm ET: Creative tools and practices session with Jamē, Christina, and Cassie
3:30-5:00pm ET: Closing with Judith and EJ
Module 2 (hybrid online/in-person, July 11-14, 2021)
Depending on your location, during Module 2, you’ll join Dance Exchange Executive Artistic Director Cassie Meador in Takoma Park, MD, and Partnering Artist Dr. Jamē McCray in Wilmington, Delaware, or Christina Catanese in Hickory Corners, Michigan for an in-person moving and making session that cultivates local connections to Dance Exchange’s new project, Future Fields, which explores how food is, or could be, grown and experienced in a changing world.
In order to participate in Module 2, you must have also participated in Module 1. Exceptions made for previous Institute participants. Facilitation of Module 2 will be led by the artists named above in each location.
**Schedule subject to change. All times listed are Eastern Time (ET)**
Sunday, July 11:
5:00-6:00pm ET: Module 2 orientation with Jamē, Christina, and Cassie
Location-specific sessions (two options to choose from):
In-Person Option | Tuesday July 13, 10:30am - 12:30pm ET: In-person outdoor session at Red Wiggler Farm in Germantown, MD with Cassie
Remote Option | Tuesday July 13, 6:00 - 8:00pm ET: Online session for Module 2 participants joining remotely with Jamē and Christina
Wednesday, July 14
6:00-8:00pm ET: Online Closing Session with Jamē, Christina, and Cassie
Dance Exchange will continue to monitor local and national guidance related to COVID-19 and make adjustments to in-person programming as necessary.
Technology Requirements
Live online sessions will be hosted via Zoom, so a wifi-enabled device with a camera and microphone as well as a stable internet connection are necessary for meaningful participation. If you are interested in the Institute but do not have adequate access to technology, please contact us.
Questions?
Contact Corina Dalzell at corinad@danceexchange.org or (301) 270-6700 ext 19 with questions or for registration assistance. We look forward to gathering, moving and making with you virtually and in-person this summer.
