This past year we shared our performance work in the Brooklyn Utopia exhibition, Open Streets program and EcoCity Pageant and hosted two cohorts of Artichoke Ambassadors, our training and mentorship program for artist activists. Read more…
2021 Reflections and Expansions
This year brought new meaning to connecting and reconnecting. Once gathering restrictions were lifted in April, hit city parks, plazas, streets and lots, thrilled to be engaging in person with performances and educational activism. We’ve had an expansive year and there’s more new and innovative programming on the way. Please consider including Artichoke Dance Company in your year-end contributions. We’re grateful for all support of our timely and important work.
2019 - an amazing year at Artichoke Dance
2019 was an amazing year for Artichoke Dance. We reached over 5000 people with our performances, workshops and engagements, made our west coast debut, and saw significant pay off in or plastic bag efforts with the passing of legislation in New York State. Dance activism works! We couldn’t have done it with out you. Find out how our work is making a difference, take a sneak peak at 2020, and please support us with a year-end contribution.
An Aha Moment in Arts and Climate Change Activism
Real and lasting change is required to create the cultural shift necessary to overcome the climate crisis. I believe it takes reencountering engaging experiences from many perspectives, and this is where the arts play a key role. Here I talk about an encounter with Carry the Earth that reinforces this in my own life.
Performance and Place: Thinking forward, Looking back
Since 2010 I’ve been developing works around particular geographic areas. In 2010, Your Planet brought performers, participants and audiences to Coney Island and Manhattan Beach to explore the shifting environment of sand and tides and witness a location in which debris washes ashore. This began my obsession with plastic pollution and a practice of integrating community actions into each project. It also began an investigation into water and shorelines…