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Dancing on the Battlements:
Choreography in the Age of Insecurity

PANEL DISCUSSION

Monday, March 7, 6:30PM
$8, free for students
The New School, Teresa Lang Center
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
New York City

Once a nation that welcomed its immigrants, the United States has become fortified against "aliens." This panel brings together choreographers who come from distant lands to work in the U.S. and Americans who chose to work elsewhere.

In conversation with Joseph V. Melillo, executive producer at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Olga Garay, program director for the arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, they will investigate the effects of the advent of Homeland Security and the Patriot Act, and address the multiplicity of new challenges they now face-legally, politically, and emotionally-as borders tighten, visas get more difficult to obtain, and the cultural and funding climate becomes more hostile to the unknown.

Panelists:
Patricia Hoffbauer, choreographer, Brazil
Ibrahim Qurashi, choreographer, Pakistan
Joseph V. Melillo, executive producer, The Brooklyn Academy of Music
Olga Garay, program director for the arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Moderator:
Elise Bernhardt, consultant and former director of The Kitchen, New York