Registration Now Open for 2017 DANCE/NYC SYMPOSIUM

Tickets are now available for Dance/NYC's 2017 Symposium and Dance/NYC have also announced preliminary content and speakers. Dance/NYC's 2017 Symposium will use as its organizing device cultural planning underway by the City of New York and deep dive into the topics of growing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workforce, increasing dance education, addressing the challenge of affordability, and driving interagency cooperation, among others. How can New Yorkers, by working together and across sectors, act now to advance the art form and more than 1,200+ dance makers and companies in the metropolitan area? And how can the art form contribute to the future of all New Yorkers?

The Symposium will make use of multiple studios for panel discussions, case studies, interactive workshops, a networking lunch, and more. Featured speakers will include Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl, Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission Chair Susana Leval, Citizens' Advisory Committee Chair Ben Rodriguez Cubeñas, Betsy MacLean and Nisha Baliga of Hester Street Collaborative, and Damian Woetzel, Director, Producer, Arts Activist, and former NYC Ballet Principal Dancer.

Dance/NYC is partnering with the Arts and Cultural Consultants Network, and arts and entertainment attorneys volunteering through the Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law and Intellectual Property Sections of the New York State Bar Association for one-on-one legal, financial, and management consultations.