MISSION

Collective Sweat Detroit is devoted to

building fellowship in the Detroit dance

community through class, residency, and

conversation spaces.

CSD is rooted in Detroit and collectively

organized. Our work honors, shares,

experiments with, nurtures, highlights,

and holds space for dance in all of its

life-giving forms.

COLLECTIVE SWEAT DETROIT MANIFESTO:

is a community led collective of dancers interested in holding space for dance in Detroit.

encourages future-driven desires for moving bodies to develop and lead us into new and unknown dancing directions.

acknowledges, examines, and challenges the biases of the contemporary dance scene, much of which is based in a Eurocentric movement aesthetic. We push to create a dance community that is authentic and reflective of each of us.

began with the goal of sustaining a weekly class and has potential to develop into a network of many classes, proposed and dreamt up by movers.

will grow to include other dance and choreographic spaces and opportunities to show work and allow for feedback.

organizes a space for people for who see dance as a life practice to gather, some of whom may volunteer to teach/lead class.

is open to all interested in dancing, though class will work with ideas and concepts that challenge introductory notions of dance.

is created to exist through and by participants, and relies on group organizing and responsibility, rather than depending on the efforts of one individual.

is for you.

Photo Credits: Erika Ruch