Dancing Fiscal Sponsorship: Embodying the Pitfalls of the Nonprofit Ecosystem by Rebecca Fitton

Thursday, November 20, 4-5:30pm CT

This event is hosted by the Practice-as-Research Working Group and is free to members. Non-member price: $20

Rebecca Fitton dances administration. From directing improvisational experiments on the basis of creating shared budgets (“approval process”) to embodying fiscal sponsorship’s trickle-down economies (“Best Practices”), her work reflects upon the labor of arts administration and questions long-standing norms about the nonprofit industrial complex. Fitton’s artistic practice is informed by their work in development and operations for nonprofits, fiscally-sponsored projects, and scrappy DIY dances.

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Chats Vol.4: Black Men and Dance

In the wake of the 2024 Presidential election and the dismantling of DEI initiatives that have long supported Black studies and affinity spaces, alongside enduring and newly emerging debates about Black masculinity and the Black male body, this issue of Chats turns its attention to Black men in dance as a vital site of inquiry, memory, and inheritance. What new histories of Black men in dance emerge when we center the voices of those working in K–12 classrooms, community spaces, and the academy? How might Black men’s movement practices and artistic labor complicate the narrow scripts of visibility, stoicism, and spectacle imposed upon them—from boyhood to manhood, from student to professional? And how do these practices invite us to rethink the very terms through which Black men in dance are studied, remembered, and carried forward?

Introduction by DSA Editorial Fellow Shacon Jones II

Chat vol. 4 Contributors: Daryl L. Foster, Aubrey Lynch II, and Dr. Mark Broomfield

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Submit to the Dance Research Journal

Dance Research Journal welcomes new submissions for its standard peer-reviewed and Artist Speaks article series. DRJ is published three times per year by Cambridge University Press.  Published articles advance knowledge in the areas of dance history, theory, politics, ethnography, and cultures. DRJ is committed to cross-disciplinary research with a dance perspective. Contributions for publication consideration are open to both members and nonmembers of DSA, and will be accepted any time. 

For submission guidelines, visit https://dasa.memberclicks.net/drj-submission-guidelines.