NCCAkron Hosts Book Event At The Strand, Rare Book Room
The National Center for Choreography-Akron (NCCAkron) will soon come to Manhattan to host Making Moves: New York City book event on January 9, 2025, in the Rare Book Room at The Strand, the iconic bookstore in the East Village. Making Moves: NYC is a free panel discussion and book event for Artists on Creative Administration. Panelists will include Christy Bolingbroke, Banning Bouldin, Katy Dammers, Delphine Lai, Tonya Lockyer, Kate Wallich, and others.
NCCAkron is one of two national centers for choreography in the U.S., a research and development hub for dance. Artists on Creative Administration: A Workbook from the National Center for Choreography is a new arts and creative life book recently published by The University of Akron Press. Edited by artist/cultural strategist Tonya Lockyer (Suquamish, WA) this book features essays from and interviews with 30 artists and advocates from the dance and performing arts worlds, sharing first-hand stories of creative administration in action through case studies, interviews, life tools, and experiments.
In celebration of the recent book release, NCCAkron will host a panel discussion with book contributors from NYC and across the U.S. This free event will include contributing authors and case studies exploring themes of arts ecosystem building, generating revenue, and building community and audiences for contemporary performance. Artists on Creative Administration will be available for purchase at the event.
“We are so excited to share Artists on Creative Administration with the New York dance and literary community. Whether you are an artist, presenter, producer, or arts worker, we hope you will join us to gather, connect and spark conversations on evolutionary business practices and creative adaptations for the wild and uncertain times ahead,” invites Christy Bolingbroke, NCCAkron Executive/Artistic Director.
The majority of contributing authors for Artists on Creative Administration are alumni from NCCAkron’s acclaimed Creative Administrative Research (CAR) program intentionally designed to build a bridge between 20th century working knowledge and the 21st century arts ecosystem. Based on the premise there is no one way to make art, so there is more than one way to manage business and administration, the CAR program interrogates typical “best practices” to imagine other ways forward with artistic ethos at the center of administrative thinking.
The National Center for Choreography-Akron supports the research and development of new work in dance by exploring the full potential of the creative process. In addition to offering studio and technical residencies to make new work, activities focus on catalyzing dialogue and experimentation; creating proximity among artists and dance thinkers; and aggregating resources around dance making. For more information, visit nccakron.org.
Making Moves: New York City is free with RSVP: nccakron.org/event-details/makingmoves-newyork
Pictured (left to right): Cover art for Artists on Creative Administration, Christy Bolingbroke (photo by Neil Sapienza), and Tonya Lockyer (photo by Quinlan Corbett).