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Join NCCAkron for a lunchtime talk with Urban Bush Women’s Samantha Speis exploring creativity, choreography, and navigating an artistic career!
Join NCCAkron’s Executive/Artistic Director Christy Bolingbroke in Guzzetta Hall this spring for Inside The Dancer’s Studio. This series of lunchtime talks with today’s dance makers from all over explores creativity, the craft of choreography, and navigating an artistic career.
These public conversations are part of Ideas in Motion, a new joint initiative between NCCAkron, The University of Akron School of Dance, Theatre, and Arts Administration (DTAA), and the Mary Schiller Myers Lecture Series in the Arts.
Samantha Speis (January 29) is an improviser and movement artist based in the Bronx, NYC, and is Artistic Director of Urban Bush Women. She has worked with Gesel Mason, The Dance Exchange, Jumatatu Poe, Deborah Hay, Marjani Forte, and Liz Lerman. She is currently a member of The Skeleton Architecture collective of black womyn and gender non-conforming artists and was recently awarded a Bessie for Outstanding Performer. She has developed a teaching practice that explores ... view more »
ADMISSION INFO
Free Admission, but please reserve your seat at nccakron.org/itds!
Website: https://www.nccakron.org/itds
LOCATION
157 University Ave., Akron, OH 44325
PARKING INFO
Parking for audience members attending evening and weekend performances is free in the E.J. Thomas Hall deck when there is not an event in that venue. Handicap-accessible parking for audience members is available in all lots, including the residential surface lot across from Guzzetta Hall.
