News and Events
Friday, January 20, 6:30pm-7:30pm: "Looking to New Curatorial Models"
Join Lydia Bell for an informational session about the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) at Wesleyan University. Lydia is an ICPP student and an ICPP Curatorial Fellow with Danspace Project. Inkub8, NW 1st Place, Miami
Wednesday, January 18, 6:30pm-8pm: "Curatorial Approaches to Presenting Time-Based Art." Join faculty and students from the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) at Wesleyan University in a discussion about curatorial approaches to presenting time-based art. Founded in 2010, the ICPP brings together artists, curators, scholars, presenters and cultural leaders for an intensive, nine-month, low-residency academic program with instructors from Wesleyan, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Danspace Project, and the Walker Art Center. Panelists include Doryun Chong (Faculty, ICPP and Curator, MoMA) Judy Hussie-Taylor (Faculty, ICPP and Executive Director, Danspace Project), Jaamil Kosoko (Student, ICPP and Artist based in Philadelphia), and Ben Pryor (Student, ICPP and Curator/Producer based in New York). Gibney Dance Center, Studio 1, 890 Broadway at 19th Street, NYC
January, 8, 2012, 8am–9am: "An Introduction to Wesleyan's Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP)" with Sam Miller (President, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council) and Pamela Tatge (Director, Wesleyan University Center for the Arts) New York Hilton, 1335 Avenue of the Americas at 54th Street, Concourse D
January 6, 2012, 1pm–3pm: "Trends in Curatorial Practice in Performance" with Philip Bither (Senior Curator of Performing Arts, Walker Art Center), Kristy Edmunds (Executive and Artistic Director, UCLA Live) and Judy Hussie-Taylor (Executive Director, Danspace Project), moderated by Sam Miller (President, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council) and introduced by Pamela Tatge (Director, Wesleyan University Center for the Arts) New York Sheraton, 811 7th Avenue at 53rd Street, Riverside Ballroom
October 18, 2011: Applications for 2012–2013 available online
July, 9, 2011: The inaugural ICPP two week on-campus intensive starts today! The first class of students, drawn from 44 initial applications, includes 17 festival programmers, artists, choreographers, museum and arts administrators, grant-makers, producers and managers. The students are drawn from 9 different states—California, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C.—as well as from Canada and Japan. Instructors and guest lecturers include ICPP Program Director Samuel A. Miller; Wesleyan professors Katja Kolcio, Claudia Tatinge Nascimento, and Nicole Stanton; and field professionals Doryun Chong of the Museum of Modern Art, Philip Bither of the Walker Art Center, Judy Hussie-Taylor, Executive Director of Danspace Project, Kristy Edmunds of UCLA Live, and ethnomusicologist Steven Taylor. The artists in residence this summer are choreographers Kyle Abraham and Trey McIntyre, writer, curator, performer and choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones, and dancer/choreographer Ralph Lemon, Artistic Director of Cross Performance.
April 28, 2011: Kristy Edmunds, the newly appointed Executive and Artistic Director of UCLA Live in Los Angeles, joins the ICPP faculty. Edmunds will guest-teach for the course "Entrepreneurial Strategies," and serve as an adviser to the program.
April 2 & 9, 2011: ICPP co-presents informal conversations on Eiko & Koma's new living installation, Naked, at the Baryshnikov Art Center (BAC), in association with BAC, Asia Society, and Danspace Project. Speakers include ICPP instructors Judy Hussie-Taylor and Doryun Chong.
January 25, 2011: Danspace Project announces partnership with the ICPP, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Ben Cameron, Program Director for the Arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation says: "The creation of ICPP is a thrilling advance for the presenting field. The founding partners bring tremendous artistic sensitivity, intellectual rigor and a deep understanding of the challenges faced by performing arts organizations today. We are honored to support this project, which promises to have a profound effect on both current and future performing arts curators."
January 21, 2011: Visiting artists for summer 2011 are announced. The ICPP welcomes Ralph Lemon, Trey McIntyre, Ishmael-Houston Jones, and Kyle Abraham.
January 7 & 9, 2011: ICPP at the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) Conference in New York, NY
December 6, 2010: This week, Program Director Sam Miller will travel to the Southwest to do presentations on the ICPP at the National Presenters Network (NPN) and Major University Presenters (MUP) conferences.
November 15, 2010: ICPP is on Facebook! www.facebook.com/WesICPP
November 2, 2010: Presentation on the ICPP, by Program Director Sam Miller, at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
October 15, 2010: Applications for 2011 available online
September 20, 2010: Download press release announcing the ICPP Professional Certificate Program.
September 11, 2010: Presentation on the ICPP, by Program Director Sam Miller, at the TBA Festival in Portland, Oregon.
Image: Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, 2006 world premiere of Ferocious Beauty: Genome, CFA Theater, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University