ENTERING AND EXITING COMMUNITY
Forging Responsible And Responsive Relationships With Place
DATE | Tuesday, August 31, 2021
TIME | 6:30-8:00PM EST
PLATFORM | ZOOM
REGISTRATION REQUIRED
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FORUM DESCRIPTION
This forum is a conversation with CSD, Detroit artists Zandria Lucas and Kristi Faulkner, and forum attendees that looks at our relationships to Detroit and the community as artists working, living, and being here. We will discuss intersecting topics of arriving and leaving, the process of finding community, being accountable to privilege, acknowledging shortcomings, connections to Detroit, and strengthening relationships, while centering the experiences and needs of folks born and raised here. We will also look at the ways gentrification and racism play into the popularization of Detroit and how this plays out in dance spaces. Lastly, we will hold space to generate actions we can take to cultivate a responsive and responsible relationship to home and place.
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PANELISTS
Zandria Lucas
A native of Detroit, MI, Zandria earned her B.F.A in Dance Performance, under the instruction of Jordeen Ivanov-Ericson, from Marygrove College (Detroit, MI) in 2012. While pursuing her B.F.A., Zandria worked as a freelance choreographer setting works in local high schools and for the Marygrove College Dance Company and Company 2. She has performed in the works of Douglas Neilsen, Roger Jeffery, Dante Henderson, Kevin Iega-Jeff and Kim Bears-Bailey, among others. Zandria's choreography has been showcased at ACDA, the National High School Dance Festival, the Fox Theatre, in Nogales, Mexico and at several dance festivals/showcases. Upon earning her Master of Fine Arts with emphasis in Choreography and Performance, May 2015, from The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) Zandria relocated back to the Metro Detroit Area where she continues her work as an artist, dance educator, and Artistic Director of Intertwine Movement Collective. Intertwine Movement Collective, founded in 2019, is a contemporary project-based dance company of artists from the Metro-Detroit area, collectively contributing to the advancement of Dance in Detroit.
Kristi Faulkner
Kristi Faulkner is a queer-identified performing artist, choreographer, filmmaker, educator and activist committed to discovering how bodies can serve as agents of social and political change. As the Founder and Artistic Director of Detroit-based Kristi Faulkner Dance, her work has been presented and commissioned throughout the Midwest and New York including at Spring to Dance, The Southern Theater, Dixon Place, Going Dutch, Excessive Realness, Wealthy Theater, Sidewalk Festival, ScreenDance Miami, Planet Ant, and numerous colleges and universities. She is a 2016 & 2018 Maggie Allesee Choreography Award finalist and a Knight Arts Challenge and Creators of Culture Award recipient for Not In My House - a collaboration with the Ruth Ellis Center to engage and inspire LGBTQ youth through performance and storytelling.
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DONATIONS WELCOME FOR THIS PROGRAM
Thank you so much for your interest and attendance in this event. Please note that we do not require donation to ensure participation.
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Thank you for your continued community support.
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This activity is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. Learn more about MCACA here.
