2023 Panelists
director, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
curator, Vice President of Visual and Performing Arts, Abrons Arts Center; Associate Curator, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
New York, NY
veteran independent arts writer, podcaster, editor, curator, dramaturge; founding Director of Black Diaspora
New York, NY
writer and curator; Editor-in-Chief, Seen journal (BlackStar Projects)
Brooklyn, NY
filmmaker, Herb Alpert Award Artist
New York, NY
Professor of Professional Practice (Film), Columbia University and Director Emeritus of the New York Film Festival
New York, NY
composer, clarinetist, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Brooklyn, NY
composer/improvisor, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Henderson, NC
composer/performer, Herb Alpert Award Artist
San Francisco, CA
Director of Grantmaking Programs, Theatre Communications Group and arts consultant
New York, NY
artistic director and chief executive, Fisher Center, Bard College and senior curator, Open Society University Network’s Center for the Arts and Human Rights
Annandale-on-Hudson and Brooklyn, NY
artistic director, Brown Arts Institute and Professor of the Practice, Brown University
Providence, RI
scholar, curator, Asst. Prof in African Diasporic Art History, Dept of History of Art, UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
curator and cultural worker; Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Toledo Museum of Art
Toledo, OH
independent curator, writer, arts administrator
Santa Monica, CA
Pages
| Name |
Genre |
Year | Details* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donald Byrd | Dance | 2010 |
choreographer, artistic director, Spectrum Dance Theater
Seattle, WA |
| David White | Dance | 1997 |
executive director, Dance Theater Workshop
New York, NY |
| Roya Amirsoleymani | Dance | 2022 |
artistic director & curator of public engagement, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Portland, OR |
| Philip Bither | Dance | 2000 |
curator, performing arts, Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN |
| Thomas DeFrantz | Dance | 2012 |
Writer, director, professor, researcher, Duke University
Durham, NC |
| Wendy Perron | Dance | 1999 |
dancer/choreographer and lecturer, Program in Theatre and Dance, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, and New York |
| Janice Ross | Dance | 2010 |
dance critic; professor, Stanford University
Atherton, CA |
| Alma Guillermoprieto | Dance | 2021 |
reporter/writer
Bogotá, Colombia |
| Thomas F. DeFrantz | Dance | 2022 |
performer, professor of theatre and performance studies, Northwestern University
Chicago, IL |
| Ann Daly | Dance | 2001 |
critic, theorist, and professor, University of Texas
Austin, TX |
| Rem Cabrera | Dance | 2000 |
chief of cultural development Miami-Dade Cultural Council
Miami, FL |
| Simone Forti | Dance | 2012 |
Dancer, choreographer, writer, adjunct professor UCLA
Los Angeles, CA |
| Allegra Fuller Snyder | Dance | 1999 |
dance ethnologist, filmmaker, and professor emeritus, UCLA
Pacific Palisades, CA |
| nora chipaumire | Dance | 2021 |
choreographer, dancer, Herb Alpert Award winner
New York |
| Olga Garay-English | Dance | 2022 |
international arts consultant
Los Angeles, CA |
| Joanna Haigood | Dance | 2002 |
site choreographer and director, ZAACHO Dance Theatre
Bolinas, CA |
| Priscilla Regalado | Dance | 2001 |
choreographer and dance educator, American Conservatory Theater and San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA |
| Stephanie Skura | Dance | 2000 |
choreographer
Seattle, WA |
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