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…
Climate Change is huge...Where do I start?
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.
2020 Reflections and Transformations
The world looks and feels a lot different than one year ago. We started 2020 with a series of performances in NYC and then began working on a new dance that was to premiere on Earth Day. Then a whole lot changed. A priority since March has been to keep artists employed and engaged in creatively connecting and responding. During the pandemic, we’ve offered several series of virtual and in person events. Now we need your help to keep innovating. Please support our ground breaking and timely 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.
Who’s Responsible and Who’s Left Behind? Questions for Climate Week...
I live 4 blocks from the Gowanus Canal, New York City’s first designated superfund site and one of the most polluted waterways in the United States. It’s also slated for the largest rezoning in New York City in 20 years. Yet it remains a toxic area. Gowanus can serve as a microcosm of larger development issues and begs some important questions.
The Creative Road is a Winding Pathway
The past month I’ve been in residency at Governor’s Island, a 172 acre island in New York harbor, with Works on Water and Underwater New York, two organizations who focus on water as a point of departure to further examine ecological change and the city respectively. Continuing my work with plastic bags, my objective was to create a glacier-like structure out of bags and begin to develop ideas for the performance piece the glacier will be featured in, We Are Drowning. What I landed on surprised me, opening new pathways.