COMMUNITY GATHERINGS

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Each DANCE NOW Community Gathering is unique to the artist hosting and the participants who share their thoughts and experiences. Artists provide a frame work and starting point for the discussion, often sharing snippets of work in progress, or techniques they use in their lives and creative processes. Participants each get a chance to respond and share, creating a thoughtful, in-depth discussion.

To make sure that everyone present can participate, registration for each Community Gathering is  extremely limited.

All Community Gatherings are part of DANCE NOW's IDEA efforts and is FREE to encourage accessibility for all audiences. 

A native New Yorker Maleek Washington is a performer, choreographer, and teaching artist at Broadway Dance Center. Previously Maleek has worked with Sia, Kyle Abraham, Rihanna, ASAP Rocky and currently a collaborator with Camille A Brown and Dancers.

With multidisciplinary, experiential performance works that investigate the people, practices, and spaces shaping Washington's black identity, he is proud to present his art in 2017 at the Boston Dance Festival, Pepatian and BAAD!, Periapsis Dance and Music Noesis, and at the legendary Movement Research at Judson Church in Spring 2018. Washington is also a 2017-18 Dancing While Black top 10 choreographic finalists. Gibney granted Mr. Washington an evening length show in 2019.

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