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Connecting dance professionals nationwide
📣 Advocacy • Research • Learning & Leadership
For a thriving + equitable future in dance
🤝 Become a member ↓
https://member.danceusa.org/membership-information

06/03/2026

Do you know someone who would be a great fit for our Board of Trustees?

👉 We’re seeking supporters of dance from a wide variety of industries to join our incoming cohort of 5-7 Board members who enhance this governing body!

(You may nominate yourself or somebody else.)

Learn more and submit a nomination → https://www.danceusa.org/board-of-trustees-call-for-nominations

📸 2026 Dance Forum; photo by Lexi Webster

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06/02/2026

📣 Dance/USA Artist Fellows in the news!
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More of our Round Three Dance/USA Artist Fellows are making headlines:⁠
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👉 Dakota Camacho , an artist from Guam rooted in Matao/CHamoru traditions, is recognized for his work revitalizing ancestral language and building relationships with Indigenous communities across the Pacific.⁠
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👉 Aguibou Bougobali Sanou discusses funding dance programs and a rehabilitation initiative for incarcerated people in his home country of Burkina Faso — and how dance carried him through personal tragedy.⁠
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👉 Tamara Williams is recognized for her decades-long focus on African Diaspora dance, community-engaged research, and building international exchanges rooted in cultural memory.⁠
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Read all three articles in full → https://www.danceusa.org/round-3-dance-usa-artist-fellows-press-features
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06/01/2026

Meet the Round 3 DFA Artist Fellows! Today, we’re excited to spotlight India Harville (she/her).

India Harville is an African American, femme, q***r, disabled multi-media artist, politicized somatic healer, and Disability Justice activist. Her creative work is rooted in the belief that art is a pathway to survival, freedom, and collective transformation. Through movement and ritual, India explores themes of resilience, interdependence, and liberation, drawing on somatics as both a healing practice and a creative tool.

She is the co-founder of How We Move, a national dance intensive and leadership program for D/deaf and Disabled artists. The program nurtures artistry and cultural organizing, building a vital ecosystem of support for Disabled artists of color. India is also a core artist in the Black Spirit Dance Collective, a ritual performance ensemble weaving movement, song, and ancestral practice to honor collective resilience and transformation.

India has performed with Sins Invalid, Dance Exchange, California State East Bay, The Q***r Arts Festival, the Black Spirit Dance Collective, Mouthwater Dance Festival, and Movement Liberation. A 2018 Q***r Cultural Center National Q***r Arts Festival–Sponsored Artist, India presented her solo work Enough. She is a two-time recipient of the Mellon-funded Access Movement Play Residency and is currently developing her solo piece Liminal, and ensemble pieces On Our Own Terms with Black Spirit Dance Collective, and L-E-A-K-Y with Elisabeth Motley.

Meet all the Round 3 DFA Fellows → https://bit.ly/4rbFRaY

DFA is made possible with generous support from the Doris Duke Foundation.

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05/29/2026

In this episode of Grantmakers in the Arts, Haowen Wang of Dance/USA joins artists Laurel Lawson and Peter Rockford Espiritu (Tau), and curator Michèle Steinwald to reflect on eight years of responsive design through Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists (DFA). Together, they examine moments of rupture, redesign, and learning, and share lessons about what it takes for institutions to reposition themselves so artists can lead.

Listen here 👇

05/28/2026

Meet the Round 3 DFA Artist Fellows! Today, we’re excited to spotlight Kerry Lee (she/her).

Kerry Lee is the Co-Artistic Director of the Atlanta Chinese Dance Company. Rooted in the American South, her work honors and recontextualizes Chinese dance traditions to advance social change in contemporary American society.

After graduating from Stanford University with an engineering degree, she followed her heart into the professional dance world in New York City and toured nationally and internationally with Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, H.T. Chen & Dancers, Dance China NY, and gloATL before returning home to co-lead Atlanta Chinese Dance Company with her mother. Since 1991, the multigenerational troupe has shared Chinese and Chinese American dance, history, and culture through National Endowment for the Arts, supported full-evening productions as well as lecture-demonstrations, workshops, and residencies throughout the South and beyond.

Her work has been discussed in China’s prestigious Beijing Dance Academy Forum as an example of innovative choreography reflecting Chinese diaspora communities and performed at the national Dance/USA conference. Among other honors, Lee was the only Chinese dancer among the finalists who received a ticket on So You Think You Can Dance Season 11 and an invited speaker at the 212th National Council on the Arts meeting.

Meet all the Round 3 DFA Fellows → https://bit.ly/4rbFRaY

DFA is made possible with generous support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

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05/27/2026

📣 If you were eligible to vote before recent changes to voting district maps, you should still be eligible to vote.

A recent Supreme Court ruling affecting the Voting Rights Act has led some states to redraw the maps that determine which candidates appear on your ballot.

These changes may affect your district, but they do not mean you cannot or should not vote.

✅ Everyone should check their voter registration status early.

📝 States regularly update voter rolls, and voters can sometimes be removed because of outdated information, address changes, or other administrative issues.

These problems are much easier to fix before Election Day.

Check your voter registration and make your voting plan → https://www.danceusa.org/dance2vote

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05/26/2026

If you're sitting in your studio or at your desk—wearing every hat and wondering who to turn to—you’re not alone. Dance/USA’s member community is here for you.⁠
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Last month, members from across the country came together for our quarterly Member Network Exchange Call—a space built for connection, reflection, and real conversation across our entire ecosystem.⁠
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👉 We celebrated meaningful milestones, like work anniversaries⁠
👉 We dug into honest, timely conversations about our field⁠
👉 Members got a preview of what’s next, including an expanding lineup of gatherings focused on mental health, advocacy, marketing, and more⁠
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Your peers are out there—doing the same work, facing the same questions, navigating the same uncertainties. You don't have to do it all alone. You were never meant to.⁠
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Join a community that shows up for each other. ⁠
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Learn more → https://member.danceusa.org/membership-information
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05/22/2026

When you're a Dance/USA member, you get access to exclusive programming and resources, including Cross-Network Connects like these.

Next week, our members will gather for another Cross-Network Connect focused on mental health and managing high stress and uncertainty.

📆 Tuesday May 26 | 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT on Zoom

Dancer and licensed psychotherapist, Mario Ismael Espinoza, LCSW, will present practical Neurosomatic tools to assess and support the nervous system's needs.

Not a member?

👉 From peer learning opportunities to expert-led sessions like this one, membership connects you to a national community dedicated to supporting the dance field.

Learn more and join today → https://www.danceusa.org/membership

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05/20/2026

📣 Join us for an online, artist-led conversation with Murielle Elizéon and Tommy Noonan, on meaning, alignment and doubt in artistic careers.

📆 Tuesday, May 26 | 1:00 – 2:30 PM EDT
💻 Online Event
💲 FREE and Open to the Public

Murielle Elizéon and Tommy Noonan will lead "Embodied tools for socially engaged creative practice: an introduction to Inner-Relationship Focusing," as part of our Centering the Artist series, offering professional dance artists tools of embodied listening, somatic exercises, conversations and writing prompts

Learn more and save your spot → https://member.danceusa.org/events/

(Thank you to The Wallace Foundation for their partnership in presenting this series in 2026. 🙏)

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05/19/2026

📣 Meet Adam Castaneda, Co-Chair of the Inaugural Dance/USA Latinx Network!

This network exists to increase visibility and provide space for Latinx arts administrators, choreographers, dancers, and multidisciplinary artists to discuss issues in the field and cultural experiences for Latinx people. This network is open to those who identify as Latinx and allies, regardless of role or membership type.

As Co-Chair, Adam serves as an ambassador and liaison between the Latinx Network, his organization, and Dance/USA, working collaboratively as a peer leader to keep Dance/USA connected to what's happening across the field.

Connect with Latinx dance artists and administrators nationwide.

Become a member and get access to the Latinx Network, and more member networks → https://member.danceusa.org/member-network-descriptions

Learn more about Adam:

ADAM CASTANEDA is a dancer, choreographer, and arts administrator living in Houston, Texas. He is the Executive and Artistic Director of the Pilot Dance Project, and his programming has been funded by the Mid-America Arts Alliance, City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, Houston Endowment, Texas Commission on the Arts, EmcArts, the Morales Foundation, HoustonFirst, the Midtown Management District, Bunnies on the Bayou, the Woodlands Arts Council, Harris County Public Health, and Dance Source Houston. Through his non-profit, he produces a full season of professional Modern dance as well as the Texas Latino/a/x Contemporary Dance Festival and Bayou City Dances. In 2018, he was selected from a national pool of applicants to attend the Jacob's Pillow National Dance Presenters Forum and was chosen as one of Dance Source Houston's 2018-2019 Artists-in-Residence. Adam is a four-time recipient of the Houston Arts Alliance's Support for Artists and Creative Individuals Grant for his evening-length works Lazarus in the Promised Land (2021), Migration (2023), The Women of Northside (2024), and Carnegie Summer (2026). Outside of dance, Adam is a proud full-time faculty member of Houston Community College's English department.

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