Red Emma’s

Speakers will include Christy Bolingbroke (Akron, OH), Quynn Johnson and Ryan Johnson of Sole Defined (Washington, D.C.), C. Brian Williams of Step Afrika! (Washington, D.C.), Mallory Miller (Washington, D.C.) and slowdanger (MD/PA).

NCCAkron is the only currently operating national center for choreography in the U.S., a research and development hub for dance. Artists on Creative Administration: A Workbook from the National Center for Choreography is an arts and creative life book recently published in 2024 by The University of Akron Press. Edited by artist/cultural strategist Tonya Lockyer (Suquamish, WA) this book features essays from and interviews with 30 artists and advocates from the dance and performing arts worlds, sharing first-hand stories of creative administration in action through case studies, interviews, life tools, and experiments.