3:30pm – 5:00pm |
April 29, 2017 |
- RSVP is encouraged
- All Studies Project events are free and open to the public
This conversation will take a detailed look at the culture around child-rearing as a performer. How do structures and attitudes in the field invite and support or discourage and overlook the choice to be primarily a dancer, rather than a dance-maker? In a dance economy focused on finding support for choreographers, what are the concrete ways performers are finding to navigate parenting and dancing?
Moderated by Nia Love
With Anna Azrieli, Peggy Cheng, Heather Olson Trovato, Samantha Speis and Sarah White-Ayón
Childcare will be provided on site.
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