The Writer’s Room: A Town Hall on Dance and Performance Writing
Hosted by Performance Response Journal, Sixty Inches From Center and The Process
Performance Response Journal, Sixty Inches From Center, and The Process podcast are partnering to present THE WRITER’S ROOM: A Town Hall on Dance + Performance Writing.
With THE WRITER’S ROOM we want to create a physical and digital space where artists, performers, and writers can discuss the writing landscape as it relates to dance and performance happening in Chicago. Together we will explore questions such as:
What do dance and performance artists want and need from arts writing?
What do writers want and need from the artists whose work they write about?
What do writers need from the platforms they publish with?
How does the Chicago arts writing ecosystem support the work of performing artists? What can it do better?
What are some collective dreams we have for the future of performance, dance, and writing in Chicago? And what needs to happen for us to get there?
This town hall is designed to be a community conversation, moderated and guided with the help of artists, curators, writers Tara Aisha Willis, Maggie Bridger, Benji Hart, and Gervais Marsh, as well as hosts from Performance Response Journal (Joanna Furnans & Aaliyah Christina), Sixty Inches From Center (Tempestt Hazel & Christina Nafziger), and The Process podcast (Alyssa Gregory).
The Process will be holding small 10-15 minute interviews post discussion. Host Alyssa Gregory will be asking attendees their thoughts on dance writing and how it connects to their creative process and their work as a whole. Some portions of the interviews will be used for a future episode of The Process.