Community Events
Center Line: How Can Dance Artists Help Shape the Future of the City?
An open conversation and reception for the dance community
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR:
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
6:00 pm
Gibney Dance Center
890 Broadway, Fifth Floor, Studio 5-2
To register, please email Allie Pfeffer at allie@gibneydance.org. Registration is free.
Led by Dance/NYC’s Director Lane Harwell, this Center Line will address the dance community’s role in shaping future of the city. The edition takes as its starting point the notion that arts advocacy, defined here as moving public policy to improve conditions for artists and institutions, requires relationship-building and messaging across public, nonprofit, and private sectors. It will engage the dance community in action-oriented dialogue with current participants in Leadership New York 24 (LNY 24), the premier civic leadership program. Lane will be joined by LNY 24’s Public Arts & Culture working group, including entrepreneurs, union representatives, economic development specialists, and others unfamiliar with the arts but in a position to help the dance community to shape the future of the city. There is an opportunity here to learn by doing.
LANE HARWELL is a member of Coro’s Leadership New York 24. He became director of Dance/NYC in 2010. Prior to joining Dance/NYC, he was the director of development at New York’s arts-wide advocacy group, the Alliance for the Arts. His lifelong history in the arts also includes a performance career with American Ballet Theatre Studio Company and management experience in diverse theater and service contexts. He holds a MBA from Columbia Business School, a MA from the University of California at Berkeley, and a BA from Princeton University. Lane chairs theMunicipal Art Society of New York’s Arts Committee and the Steering Committee for the New York Dance and Performance Awards (aka the Bessie Awards). He is a member of the Steering Committee for the New York City Arts Coalition, the Policy Leadership Circle for the Cultural Strategies Initiative, and the Advisory Group for One Percent for Culture. He is also a New York State Council on the Arts’ panelist for the Regional Economic Development Councils.
Center Line continues on February 27, 2013 with Dance/NYC and Dance/USA
Center Line: Shaping the Future of the Dance Field - Dance/NYC Symposium Debrief
An open conversation and reception for the dance community
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
6:00 pm
Gibney Dance Center
890 Broadway, Fifth Floor, Studio 5-2
To register, please email Allie Pfeffer at allie@gibneydance.org.
Registration is free. Early registration is recommended to confirm your seats.
Co-Presented by Gibney Dance Center, Dance/USA, and Dance/NYC
Moderated by Amy Fitterer, Gina Gibney, and Lane Harwell
Dance/NYC’s 2013 Symposium, scheduled for Sunday, February 24, at the Gibney Dance Center, will explore the role and reach of New York City dance, and dig deep into the current circumstances of funding, touring, marketing, and education. What are the opportunities for advancing the city’s 1,200+ dance makers on national and international stages and for building bridges with sister dance artists and institutions? As a stage for dance, how can NYC participate, learn, and lead in the dance landscape?
At the Symposium, Dance/USA and Dance/NYC will also jointly discuss their new alliance. This edition of Center Line, a conversation with Dance/USA’s Executive Director Amy Fitterer, Dance/NYC’s Vice Chair Gina Gibney, and Dance/NYC’s Executive Director Lane Harwell, is an opportunity to debrief on Symposium topics and the local-national synergies in service delivery strengthened by Dance/NYC’s alliance with Dance/USA. Speakers will address questions submitted in advance of the session to Dance/NYC’s new Special Projects Manager, Leigh Ross: lross@dancenyc.org.
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