Responsible & Responsive: The Duty of the Performing Arts Sector in Our Current Context

Описание: COVID-19 and the movement against systemic racism have fundamentally altered the rules of engagement between presenter and artist, leading presenting institutions to ask key questions that will shape the ways they engage with artists and communities going forward. In this time of concurrent crises and cultural upheaval, how do we uplift the voices of BIPOC artists in the performing arts? Colleen Jennings-Roggensack and Marc Bamuthi Joseph discuss the responsibilities of the presenting institution to artists and to their communities.

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BIOS
Colleen Jennings-Roggensack is an arts leader and visionary who for the past 26 years has been the Vice President for Cultural Affairs for Arizona State University and Executive Director of ASU Gammage. She is responsible for ASU Gammage as well as ASU Kerr Cultural Center and Sun Devil Stadium and Wells Fargo Arena non-athletic events. She oversees 365 Community Union—an innovative stadium reinvention to transform the facility into a year-round hub of cultural activity. Colleen is a founding member of the Creative Capital Board, senior advisor to Hermitage Artist Retreat and Women of Color in the Arts. She serves on The Broadway League Board of Governors Executive Committee. She is also a past president of the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) and served on the National Council on the Arts at the bequest of President Clinton. She is a consultant to several universities, colleges and international governments and a featured speaker at conferences. Colleen is married to Dr. Kurt Roggensack, volcanologist at Arizona State University, and the proud mother of Kelsey, PhD student at Cornell University.

Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a 2017 TED Global Fellow, an inaugural recipient of the Guggenheim Social Practice initiative, and an honoree of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship. He is also the winner of the 2011 Herb Alpert Award in Theatre, and an inaugural recipient of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, and a 2006 Creative Capital Awardee. In pursuit of affirmations of black life in the public realm, he co-founded the Life is Living Festival for Youth Speaks, and created the installation “Black Joy in the Hour of Chaos” for Creative Time. Joseph’s opera libretto, We Shall Not Be Moved, was named one of 2017’s “Best Classical Music Performances” by The New York Times. His evening length work, /peh-LO-tah/, successfully toured across North America for three years,including at BAM’s Harvey Theater as a part of the 2017 Next Wave Festival. His piece, “The Just and the Blind” investigates the crisis of over-sentencing in the prison industrial complex, and premiered at a sold out performance at Carnegie Hall in March 2019. Bamuthi is currently at work on commissions for the Perelman Center, Yale University, and the Washington National Opera as well as a new collaboration with NYC Ballet Artistic Director Wendy Whelan. Formerly the Chief of Program and Pedagogy at YBCA in San Francisco, Bamuthi currently serves as the Vice President and Artistic Director of Social Impact at The Kennedy Center.


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