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 pelvic mobility as the root of powerful locomotion and as a point of connection to the stories, experiences, and lineages that reside in each of us.

Website link: https://www.urbanbushwomen.org/the-company

Photo by Nathea Lee, courtesy Urban Bush Women.