Along with Fen Kennedy, Tammy Sugden Carrasco, and Crystal Michelle Perkins, I founded The Landingspace Project, which offered a series of creative workshops and discussions throughout the fall of 2020. Open to artists with a dance and movement practice, these workshops facilitated an exploration of some of the more urgent themes faced by creative artists in this moment: escape, landing, fantasy, resistance, abolition, borders. We invited participants to consider both the oppressive structures they are currently working within, and what would happen if those structures were taken away. Following each workshop participants will be able to able to attend Fertile Ground workspaces to discuss workshop themes, develop projects, and deepen connections with other project artists. 

In the spring of 2021, workshop participants were invited to form collaborative working groups to explore self-directed creative processes. Participants might explore dance, or other generative creative modes. Landingspace will train facilitators to lead these working groups, and offer support developing and documenting each group’s project. While there is no requirement to make “a work,” we hope that each group will share their outcomes with other participants, and with a broader audience.

Workshops included Tension, Redirection, and Abolitionist Thinking, facilitated by mayfield brooks, Landing, Reimagining, Value and Validity, facilitated by Bebe Miller, Borders, Boundaries, and Surveillance, facilitated by Jessica Rajko, and Escape, Fantasy, and the Blue Sky, facilitated by Jennifer Harge.

Find out more at: https://landingspaceproject.org