The Dance Union

J. Bouey Dance Projects
The Dance Union

A place to share ideas. A place to voice concerns. A place to demand change. A space of resistance. A space to unify. A podcast.

  1. MAR 31

    What Is Happening to Dance Funding?

    This week, we are grateful to be joined by Bex Ferrell (they/she), Assistant Professor in Arts Management at the College of Charleston, and Candace Thompson-Zachery (she/her), the Co-Executive Director for Dance/NYC! What is happening to dance funding right now, both in the micro- and macrosphere? Where is there funding still? While the funding from the NEA is a concern for many industries, how does that funding compare to that of private donors? What would it mean to have wage and working standards in the arts? Why is data important for funding and how do we create a narrative out of it that will appeal to our local governments? Join us for this episode for an insider’s perspective on advocacy for arts funding! (recorded: March 19, 2025) Hosts: Bex Ferrell (they/she) SM: @fdance Candace Thompson-Zachery (she/her) SM: @candacecreates The Dance Union TheDanceUnionPodcast.com IG: @thedanceunion FB: www.facebook.com/TheDanceUnion/ . *SUPPORT THE DANCE UNION PODCAST* Patreon: www.patreon.com/danceunion Venmo: @Dance-Union . EPISODE RESOURCES Executive Summary Support - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AWe6PFkmveMdwzRlyT4wULuhVWupJ-2n/view NYSCA - https://arts.ny.gov/nysca-grant-opportunities NEA - https://www.arts.gov/grants/grants-for-arts-projects NEFA NDP - https://www.nefa.org/NationalDanceProject MAP Fund - https://mapfund.org/ Cultural Development Fund https://www.nyc.gov/site/dcla/cultural-funding/programs-funding.page Cultural Assembly - https://theculturalassembly.com/ CUNY Dance Initiative https://www1.cuny.edu/sites/dance-initiative/ Find Your Representatives - https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member SC Arts Alliance - https://scartsalliance.com/ Performing Arts Alliance (their website is currently down) Dance/USA - https://www.danceusa.org/ Book: Careers in Dance - https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/careers-in-dance-best-practices-and-strategies-for-a-fulfilling-professional-life_ali-duffy/26194271/item/83599055/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=pmax_non_scarce_used_nca_22292660096&utm_adgroup=&utm_term=&utm_content=&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw-e6-BhDmARIsAOxxlxXbiV07RfHtp8yJVj4QvjfQe2qu3iWaqba8rvwPGTO07h9TkH9uTyAaAugkEALw_wcB#idiq=83599055&edition=29147672 Dance/NYC Campaign - hub.dance.nyc - Our NYC Dance Resource: Contract language - Dance/USA - https://www.danceusa.org/technical-and-standardization-documents NYC Dance 2023 Report: https://hub.dance.nyc/state-of-nyc-dance-2023-report/

    1h 2m
  2. FEB 12

    Dismantling the Master’s House

    We passed the mic to Mario Ismael Espinoza (they/them), who is part of the Entertainment Community Fund, and David Herrera (he/him), who discussed the creation and evolution of Herrera’s Latinx Hispanic Dancers over the last 20 years. Through this discussion, they unravel how Herrera’s perspective of his future career evolved as he began to envision the inception of Latinx Hispanic Dancers and began to understand what holes in the dance community he wanted the company to fill, especially in the Latinx community. All of these leads back to revisiting the question: Can the master’s tools dismantle the master’s house? (recorded: March 3, 2025) Kayla Hamilton is a performance maker, dancer, educator, and consultant, who is a current Jerome Hill and Pina Bausch Fellow and is the founder of the recently formed “Circle O”, an organization centering BIPOC Disabled creatives. She is the co-developer of “Crip Movement Lab”, described as “pedagogical framework centering cross-disability movement practices for every-body” and has developed access center programming for several dance organizations in NYC. Jerron Herman is a dancer/writer, who has premiered works at Danspace Project, Baltimore Museum of Art, LIncoln Center (digital), among others. His writings, including Art Papers and 3 Bodies, have been published across both nationally and internationally. Jerron is currently a part of INTERIM, described as “a boutique centering joy for disabled artists”, and has recently received the 2024 USA Fellowship and the 2023-24 Fellowship at NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts. Hosts: David Herrera https://www.dhperformance.org/the-directors- Mario Ismael Espinoza The Dance Union TheDanceUnionPodcast.com IG: @thedanceunion FB: www.facebook.com/TheDanceUnion/ . *SUPPORT THE DANCE UNION PODCAST* Patreon: www.patreon.com/danceunion Venmo: @Dance-Union . Artists and Organizations Mentioned: https://www.dhperformance.org/ https://lovedancemore.org/ https://www.paramardance.com/ https://www.stephaniegarcia.art/ https://www.instagram.com/primerageneraciondance/ https://www.gabrielmatamovement.com/about-5 Yvonne Montoya - https://www.yvonnemontoya.co/ Dancers Group - https://dancersgroup.org/ Bridge Live Arts - https://www.bridgelivearts.org/ Omar Roman de Jesus/Bocatuya - https://www.bocatuya.com/ Rosie Herrera - https://www.rosieherrera.dance/ Vanessa Sanchez - https://lamezclasf.net/about/

    1h 36m
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