Wild Actions

**We stopped adding to these lists in 2021 and will leave them up indefinitely to serve as an archive.

greenhouse fire by WA, Broad Run, VA 2018

still from remote rehearsal, Delicate Hold by Jane Jerardi, Chicago, IL, May 2020

**we are currently taking a break from adding to this list.

PERFORMANCES / EVENTs / SHARINGS:

Launched by the Department of Natural & Cultural Resources & North Carolina Arts Council, presents Come Hear North Carolina and includes Mic Check: Black Hip-Hop Artists Showcase A New Wave Of North Carolina Protest Music as well as some articles to check out as well, Kyeasha Jennings, December 6, 2020

Fact 2020: Movement: In 2020 we explored the boundary-pushing worlds of dance, choreography and experimental performance. Series, Movement I By Fact

ILLUMINATE Downtown Raleigh Art Walk in Raleigh, NC, December 11 to January 8. The Downtown Raleigh Alliance in partnership with VAE Raleigh, commissioned 14 temporary storefront installations.

Maura Garcia Dance presents Little Artist Chats on IGTV @maura_garcia_dance - Dancer Choreographer Maura Garcia talks with artists and cultural practioners about process, life & being in the world.

Lean, December 1, 2020-January 31, 2021, Radical Broadcast radio on Performa’s site - curated by Legacy Russell, Associate Curator, Exhibitions, The Sturio Museum in Harlem

Famed Alvin Ailey Dance Theater Announces Free Virtual Season, slated for December, Because of Them We Can, October 9, 2020

Duke Arts & Duke Performances present the return of Friday Lunchtime Artist Talks with “In Conversation” Fridays, 12pm (October 16-November 13), on Zoom and no registration required. In chronological order: Forrest McClendon, Urban Bush Women, Ranky Tanky, INTERSTATE: an Asian American pop-rock musical, Chris Pattishall.

NC Dance Festival 2020 presents Community Conversations - next up is Finding Your Own Way: Through the Dance Industry with Helen Simoneau, artistic director and choreographer of Helen Simoneau Danse. Happening via Zoom on Friday, October 23rd at 6:30pm to learn about navigating the dance industry, redefining success, dance in the age of a pandemic, and much more. The discussion will include an excerpt of Helen’s latest work DARLING (2020) and a Q&A session. Click here to register for the Zoom meeting. Registration must be completed prior to the event. For more info, click here .

#Give2Grace is a seven-day virtual event for Grace Exhibition Space about witnessing and giving to sustain a vital resource for local and international Performance Artists and secure the future of our organization. Streamed on their website and Facebook (@grace.exhibition.space), #Give2Grace begins Tuesday, September 22nd and concludes Monday, September 28th and will feature video premieres, updates from current artists-in-residence, interviews, and a culminating panel discussion. Featured Grace Space performance alums include: Miao Jiaxin, Martin O'Brien, Arantxa Araujo, Nicole Goodwin, Kris Grey, Alex Romania, Nicola Fornoni, and resident artists, Dee Dee Maucher and Dragonfly (Robin Laverne Wilson).

Jane Jerardi, Chicago, IL presents Delicate Hold - a poetic map of desire, an online performance of movement mixed with text, images, and voice. Friday August 28 at 8pm CTZ & Saturday August 29 2pm CTZ. View on janejerardi.com/delicate and on twitch.tv/jjerardi *For best performance, if viewing on a mobile device, please turn horizontally. Jane Jerardi and this presentation of delicate hold are supported by a 2019 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Award.

Filling The Void: Confronting Ableism In The Art Space presented by the Institute of Contemporary Arts LA - This is LIVE and will be available to stream.

August 22: Abareshi examines accessibility in museums to discuss the prevalence of ableism in the architecture, curation, and critical discussions of contemporary art that affirm prevailing systems of inequity. On-site attendance, please RSVP for Aug 22  / Virtual attendance, use the Google Meet Link for Aug 22: https://meet.google.com/pjx-bpvi-jok
August 23: Abareshi opens the discussion of disability in art practices and the importance of the embodied disabled experience.
On-site attendance, please RSVP for Aug 23 / Virtual attendance, use theGoogle Meet Link Aug 23: https://meet.google.com/pjx-bpvi-jok

A pandemic-safe adventure - Walk Around Philadelphia is the 2020 Philadelphia Fringe Festival experience that will transform participants’ understanding of the city.

Creative Capital Online Arts Events During the COVID-19 Outbreak

*Keep an eye out for The Black (W)hole film, which is now in production in Oakland, CA at the Destiny Arts Center. The Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company (DAYPC) and The Elders Project will work with Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Yoram Savion, Brett Cook and a team of powerful collaborators to create a poetic documentary film to honor six young Black people who lost their lives in and around Oakland before the age of 32.

Chorus Productions presents Eschaton - a maze of rooms featuring dozens of NYC’s finest performers/shuttered nightclub/interact and find a new strange delight behind every doorway/meet up with friends, invite a date, or come alone. Every Saturday night.

During a residency in The Kitchen’s building at 512 West 19th Street, Autumn Knight will create a new project to be viewed by online audiences. The Kitchen OnScreen has all the details - Friday July 24, 6pm EDT/ Friday July 31, time tba / Friday August 7, time tba

THE OWL OF MINERVA ARRIVES ONLY AT DUSK is a seven chapter dance film investigating the legacy of USA structural white supremacy and its interconnectedness to oppression, the opiate epidemic, and natural world. Using movement, symbology and settings, this dance film explores inter-generational trauma, the pharmaceutical industry, misogyny and grassroot actions working for healing of all living things. It is an @hand production, in association with chicken bank collective, miss lizzie pants, BosgueNegro. introducing CrystalClaw, red curtain productions. a dream of zen monkey project. director/producer zap mcconnell  zapmcconnell.com

Festival des arts Saint-Sauveur - A Shared Solitude - based on a collaboration between Guillaume Côté and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur and the Orchestre Métropolitain. A presentation of 10 solos created by 10 choreographers on the music of 10 Quebec composers, united by the COVID-19 crisis and the upheaval it has caused. This summer, each week, a short film will be presented, produced by the director Louis-Martin Charest. The first 4 videos are up now.

Here.org presents COVIDEO, an ongoing series of sequential community-built video of art-making. Here has other programming you can view from home as well.

Tuesday May 19, 6pm EST - IG @suittsyouwrite & FB - live poetry reading by Chapel Hill, NC’s first Poet Laureate - CJ Suitt

Experimental Sound Studio presents The Quarantine Concerts

The Mothlight in Asheville, NC presents live IG concerts @themothlight often (or always?) curated by MANAS - - - - until the Mothlight closes for good :(

Dance Camera West in partnership with OVID.tv is happening now starting May 14! - watch the just the TRAILER HERE - watch the WHOLE FESTIVAL here *** $10 ticket is now available with discount code DCWMEM

The Black Maria Virtual Film Festival

Ryuichi Sakamoto Shares Improvised Home Concert & launches new online series, INCOMPLETE

Creative Quarantine A Virtual Exhibition by Raleigh Arts

Sidewalk Serenades curated by Creative Alliance in Baltimore, MD

Fäque Knews ongoing COVID-19 related video series curated on site by Lump Projects in Raleigh, NC

Earthdance in MA continues to offer an array of support & online events

id m theft able (find him on Kraag.org too) and his tubas by moving water series is killer - find these videos on his FB page or on youtube

DISCUSSIONS:

Creating New Futures: Working guidelines for Ethics & Equity in Presenting Dance & Performance

Dirty White Matter - a group discussion to critically discuss whiteness + femininity, conceived + facilitated by NC artist Meg Stein

ARTICLES & VIDEOS OF INTEREST:

Can You Immerse From a Distance? Neil Fauerso in Glasstire, December 12, 2020

City launches real estate company to save and create Seattle art spaces by Margo Vansynghel in Crosscut, November 9, 2020

4 Museums Decided This Work Shouldn’t Be Shown. They’re Both Right and Wrong. Fear Postponed A Philip Guston Retrospective. A Reckoning Must Follow.  Jerry Saltz @jerrysaltz in Vulture, October 1, 2020

“Open for Exploitation”: Artists Project Messages on Guggenheim Museum Ahead of Reopening, Hakim Bishara, Hyperallergic, September 29, 2020

Watching a Choreographer Build: Trisha Brown’s Unusual Archive - The New York Public Library has acquired Brown’s archive, including 1,200 videotapes that provide an invaluable record of her creative process, Siobhan Burke, September 16, 2020, The New York Times

The Hard-Hit Arts Sector Is Facing a Brain Drain as Ambitious Workers Seek Greener Pastures, Zachary Small, artnet.com, September 15, 2020

Dance During The Pandemic: A Roundtable Conversation - Charles Aubin, Aruna D”Souza, Brendan Fernandes, Ligia Lewis and Paul Make Take Stock of the Performance World in the Wake of COVID-19, Frieze, September 4, 2020

Doing It For Themselves: New Artist-Run spaces in Chapel Hill and Carrboro (NC), Emilie Menzel in Artist Profiles, Orange County Arts Commission (NC), September 3, 2020

Up on the Roof, Flesh and Blood Dancers Move and Connect - A new performance series, Arts on the Roof, affords some of the few opportunities to watch live dance in New York this summer and fall, Siobhan Burke,The New York Times, August 31, 2020

Hyperallergic takes on the role & mistakes of art critics and art historians, Sunday Edition, Mistakes: 😬 From Oversights to Missteps ❌, August 30, 2020

A New York Nonprofit Is Collecting Plywood From Boarded-up Storefronts And Redistributing It To Artists To Turn Into Public Art, Eileen Kinsella, artnet.com August 19, 2020

Carrie Mae Seems’ ‘Resist COVID/Take 6!’ Billboard Project Comes To DFW Via Area Museums, Christopher Blay on Glasstire August 18, 2020

An Urgent Conversation About Abelism In The Art World, Artist Panteha Abareshi discusses the role of curation in museums and the crucial work of disabled artists like herself, Elisa

Wouk Almino in Hyperallergic, August 19, 2020

Has Self-Awareness Gone Too Far In Fiction? Increasingly, characters seem to be rewarded for the moral work of feeling bad, Katy Waldman in The New Yorker, August 19, 2020

How Latinx Artists Were Shut Out Of Art History, Arlene Dávila’s Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, Politics considers the plights of Latinx artists through the lens of race and class disparities in both North and South America by Valentina Di Liscia in Hyperallergic, August 18, 2020

Museums Have a Docent Problem, Inside The Struggle To Train a Mostly White, Unpaid Tour Guide Corps To Talk About Race by By Sophie Haigney in SLATE, August 18, 2020

Storyteller Amy Godfrey Is Building An Emotionally Intelligent Generation, Stephen Atkinson in The Duke Chronicle, August 17, 2020

We Need To Treat Artists As Workers, Not Decorations, William Deresiewicz on the Dangerous Illusion of Art as a Labor of Love in Literary Hub, August 5, 2020

a good sister read….A Choreographer Bills His Dances As “Services,” Emily Wilson in Hyperallergic, January 23, 2019

We Need to Treat Artists as Workers, Not Decorations, William Deresiewicz in Literary Hub, August 5, 2020

Redefining a Commitment to Equity With Brain Arts Org,  Elena Morris in ArtsBoston, August 4, 2020

Latinx Art: Artists, Markets & Politics with Professor Arlene Dávila on Episode 32 on Top Rank podcast on Soundcloud, August 3, 2020

LA Artists & Art Movements - Hyperallergic has four-part series about artists and art movements in LA, made possible by a grant provided by the Sam Francis Foundation.

- In South Los Angeles, Art is a Force for Community Empowerment, Matt Stromberg July 31, 2020

- “We Paid for This Town”: The Legacy of Chicanx Pink in LA,  Rosa Boshier August 3, 2020

- In America’s “First Suburban Chinatown,” Asian Americans Have Negotiated Cultural Representation, Caroline Liou August 4, 2020

- Turning To Art For Spiritual Sustenance, Jennifer Remenchik August 5, 2020

Highlighting Detroit’s Invisible Artists: Local Art Workers, Sarah Rose Sharp in Hyperallergic, August 3, 2020

Sarah Crowell Moves to Decolonize Dance, Lou Fancher in San Francisco Classical Voice, August 1, 2020

and  Reimagining Destiny TEDx talk from Sarah Crowell as well, October 2018

How Artists and Art Institutions Lead the Conversation on Race in America, Adam Parker in Post and Courier, July 25 updated July 31, 2020

There’s No Social Distancing for Dancers. How Can the Show Go On?, Gia Kourlas in New York Times, July 24, 2020

Theatre Can’t Miss This Moment: An Interview with Audra McDonald, Michael Schulman in The New Yorker, July 26, 2020

A Model For the ‘Dance World We Want’ Melanie Greene and J. Bouey, hosts of the Dance Union podcast, are moving beyond “a lot of talking” to organize for change, Siobhan Burke, June 12, 2020, The New York Times

The Dance Union Town Hall for Collective Action: Dismantling White Supremacy Within Dance Institutions, June 1, 2020

Eschaton is a Surreal Zoom Nightclub - And a Theater for the Age of Social Distancing: Go out while you’re staying in, Adi Robertson in The Verge, May 21, 2020

What Socially Distanced Live Performance Might Look Like, Justin Davidson in Vulture, May 14, 2020

Top Five: May 14, 2020. Things We Don’t Miss About the Art World, Glasstire outta Texas, May 14, 2020

80 LA Galleries Band Together In an Effort to Survive the Pandemic, Elisa Wouk Almino in Hyperallergic, May 14, 2020

How Artists Might Shape The Future of the Navajo Nation, Ellie Duke in Hyperallergic, May 13, 2020

Creating New Futures: Working Guidelines for Ethics & Equity in Presenting Dance & Performance, an open source, collaboratively written, in-progress text, early May 2020

Seattle drive-in dance event is part scavenger hunt, part performance, Margo Vansynghel in Crosscut, April 29, 2020

Our Man in Maine: id m theft able’s A Tuba (With A Microphone Stuck In It) Series Soothes, Chris Strunk for Brain Arts Org, May 9, 2020

If You Want To Protect Black Art, Protect Black Critique, Tonja Renée Stidhum, The Grapevine in The Root, December 2, 2019

Michaela Coel, James MacTaggart Lecture, Edinburgh TV Festival 2018, August 23, 2018

RESOURCES:

Shana Tucker: A Musician’s First-Time Live Streaming Empowerment Checklist, March 30, 2020 **this could be a bit dated because of new available streaming platforms and backorders of suggested equipment, but her thorough support and enthusiasm make it worth the watch.

Sony is offering the Alpha Female+ $5000 + equipment & support grant. Last deadline is February 15, 2021.

Call for Proposals for the 2020 PRELUDE Festival (David Bruin and Miranda Haymon, Co-curators) Presented by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center October 20 – October 30, 2020 Here’s the Proposal Form.

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (The Carter) has announced its open call for its 2021 Carter Community Artist Program.

A List of Reopening Date for NYC Museums, Valentina Di Liscia

Guide to Reopen the Arts from NC Arts Council & partnering orgs

Creative Capital has a list of online workshops / national, state, & local grants / list of events / other resources / useful information / misc

Sign up to receive info for Triangle area happenings in dance from DIDA

The National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) is securing financial support to preserve the national ecosystem of independent venues and promoters

Orange County Arts Commission (NC) COVID-19 related resources

Durham Artist Relief Fund facilitated by NorthStar Church of the Arts

NC Artist Relief Fund facilitated by VAE Raleigh

The Arts In North Carolina and COVID-19 on the NC Arts Council site

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