MISSION + VISION
MISSION
Founded in 2015, Midday Movement Series ("MIDDAY") is a BIPOC-led grassroots initiative cultivating a new, diverse generation of dance leaders through professional development, mentorship, and advocacy. By providing focused support to emerging contemporary dance teachers, MIDDAY is creating a leadership pipeline, increasing talent retention and workforce readiness in the area. Using principles of eco-conservation, MIDDAY regards teacher-choreographers as "keystone artists" in the dance ecosystem, impacting professional dancers, venues, audiences, and more through the nature of their work. By helping these artists flourish, MIDDAY is creating far-reaching and long-lasting change to build a sense of home and place for all dance-lovers who believe that movement has the power to spark individual passion and ignite community spirit.
VISION
We believe in an interdependent dance sector that fosters empowerment, optimism, and imagination.
We envision a world where dance can belong to everyone, and where our shared embodied understanding makes transformation and discovery feel possible.
Founded in 2015, Midday Movement Series ("MIDDAY") is a BIPOC-led grassroots initiative cultivating a new, diverse generation of dance leaders through professional development, mentorship, and advocacy. By providing focused support to emerging contemporary dance teachers, MIDDAY is creating a leadership pipeline, increasing talent retention and workforce readiness in the area. Using principles of eco-conservation, MIDDAY regards teacher-choreographers as "keystone artists" in the dance ecosystem, impacting professional dancers, venues, audiences, and more through the nature of their work. By helping these artists flourish, MIDDAY is creating far-reaching and long-lasting change to build a sense of home and place for all dance-lovers who believe that movement has the power to spark individual passion and ignite community spirit.
VISION
We believe in an interdependent dance sector that fosters empowerment, optimism, and imagination.
We envision a world where dance can belong to everyone, and where our shared embodied understanding makes transformation and discovery feel possible.
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COMMITMENTS
MIDDAY Note: We refer to our values as our 'commitments,' as we are committed to actively and tangibly implementing these values into our organizational, teaching, and community practices. Bravery: We believe it takes courageous action to create the sector (and world) that we want. We commit to decentering whiteness and patriarchy, to not avoiding conflict, and to challenging our depth. Directness: We commit to truth-telling and candor, asking for and acknowledging feedback, being upfront, and asking for what we need. We commit to centering consent, intentionality, and to physical as well as verbal listening. Power: We believe we do not have to be given power, we already have power. We commit to respecting and taking all people seriously, respecting our craft, and respecting ourselves. We acknowledge that in every interaction we are either creating or destroying trust, and it is our choice to determine which we will do. We accept that, as new leaders we are also gate-keepers, and we commit to asking ourselves - are we keeping the gates closed or open, and to who? Ecological Time: We believe in bottom-up work and staying committed to the holistic grassroots dance community by sharing resources, recognizing our collective abundance and power, believing that others’ success is our success, and working for others’ benefit even when they are not present to advocate for themselves. We are living and working with and for those who came before us and those who will come after us. It is not our job to do everything; rather, we commit to being a part of the work. |
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Content copyright 2016. All rights reserved.
Content copyright 2016. All rights reserved.
