Practicing Performance
Practicing Performance is a dance festival about sharing and exchanging, a place where people can meet on equal grounds to share tools, knowledge, and to foster a sense of togetherness. We hope that gathering artists from different backgrounds and contexts sparks an environment where we can support different ways of working and thinking.
Practicing Performance begins to bridge the gap between different dance communities. The exchange of knowledge through classes, workshops, practices, and performances begins with discourse about the what, why, and how of what we do in our field.
Practicing Performance is run by acmeArts LLC
Artistic mission:
This space is supportive and caring.
This space is working towards the development of art practices.
This space is an exchange of ideas.
This space is critically thinking about dance and its place today.
This space is for training skills (for performance, for creation).
Yes to details
Yes to craft
Yes to specificity without knowing exactly what it is
Yes to specificity through practice and performance
Yes to attentiveness that provokes thinking through experiencing
Yes to witnessing and performing vulnerability
Yes to sharing time and space with and for people
Yes to art practicing care, commitment, trust, responsibility, respect
Yes to questioning dance’s historical value to transform our ideas about the future
Yes to dreaming of possibilities
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