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Welcome! We invite you to move through our site and see all the opportunities NCCAkron creates for artists to engage with one another, their communities, the city of Akron, and the national dance ecosystem.

The National Center for Choreography - Akron (NCCAkron) supports working dance artists as they experiment, engage in the creative process, and advocate for their work and for the field. 

 

Photo credits: Above video contains images courtesy Dale Dong Photography, Mike Crupi, and Jonny Riese 

Upcoming Event with Helanius J. Wilkins

Join NCCAkron and choreographer Helanius J. Wilkins for a Choreographic Ritual – a free, site-based performance offering inspired by the Akron, OH community.

 

This is the culminating event for a series of community-engagement activities connected to The Conversation Series: Stitching the Geopolitical Quilt to Re-Body Belonging, an ongoing and always shifting dance and social change work, confronting and celebrating heritage, resiliency, justice, and hope.

Choreographic Ritual     

  • Saturday, May 18, 2024

  • 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET

  • People's Park

  • 760 Elma St, Akron, OH

  • FREE

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Helanius J. Wilkins and Brandon Welch during a Washington DC Choreographic Ritual (David Dowling).

NCCAkron Announces the Fifth Season of Inside the Dancer's Studio
 

NCCAkron has launched the fifth season of Inside the Dancer’s Studio, a podcast that brings listeners into the process of creating dance.

 

Artists featured in Season 5 include Ruby Morales (Phoenix, AZ), Brandon “Chief Manny” Calhoun and Sterling “Steelo” Lofton of The Era Footwork Crew (Chicago, IL), Angelina Ramirez (Tucson, AZ), Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez (New York, NY), Hélène Simoneau (Montreal, Québec / New York, NY) with Jie-Hung Connie Shiau (New York, NY), John Heginbotham (Brooklyn, NY), J’Sun Howard (Chicago, IL), Takahiro Yamamoto (Portland, OR / Boston, MA), and Pioneer Winter (Miami, FL).

Plus, a bonus episode from the upcoming Dancing Conversation: Allies in Action!, a panel discussion on queerness and disability in choreography. Hear from Dancing Wheels Company President/Founding Artistic Director Mary Verdi-Fletcher (Sagamore Hils, OH) with Alexis Diggs (Dayton, OH), Tiffany Mills (Brooklyn, NY), and Mark Tomasic (Los Angeles, CA).

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Dancing Conversation: Allies in Action!

Join NCCAkron Executive/Artistic Director Christy Bolingbroke as she hosts a conversation on queerness and disability in choreography. 

Hear from President/Founding Artistic Director Mary Verdi-Fletcher (Sagamore Hills, OH) of Dancing Wheels Company, and the three guest choreographers invited to make new works for their 43rd Anniversary event “Allies in Action!” – Alexis Diggs (Dayton, OH), Tiffany Mills (Brooklyn, NY), and Mark Tomasic (Los Angeles, CA).

Dancing Conversation: Allies in Action!     

  • Monday, May 20, 2024

  • 5:00 – 6:00 pm ET

  • NCCAkron's YouTube Channel

  • FREE

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Provide space for artists to exchange knowledge and/or try something new.

Support opportunities for dance makers, writers, and artist-administrators to deepen their practice and realize their visions, at any stage of their creative process.

Elevate the voices of artists through documentation, publishing, archiving, and writing.

OUR IMPACT

NCCAkron aims to foster geographic equity and to fulfill our potential as a national center. We commit to supporting a stronger, more visibly connected network focused on research and development across the dance ecosystem.

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“I would consider NCCAkron as a place where ideas can become reality. Experiments build curiosity.” 

 

- NCCAKRON ALUMNI ARTIST

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