BodyBusiness
World Premiere at University Settlement [2015]
BodyBusiness is an interactive production that re-envisions the economic practices of the dance world and encourages greater transparency of the artist experience.
BodyBusiness occurs in three essential parts:
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Marketplace: Barter, purchase and sign up for resources that support artists and small businesses
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Live performance: Meet the women of SLMDances and navigate with them through their dreams and the financial realities of being a dancer in New York City.
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Resource-sharing: Swap skills, time and opportunities with your fellow audience members.
Each section of the production builds upon the next to make plain the needs of today’s dance artists, create a sense of community and inspire us to think and act from a place of abundance, empathy and urgency.
choreography devised + directed by
Sydnie L. Mosley
in collaboration with dancers
Candace Thompson, Kimberly Mhoon, Rachel Russell, Kayla Hamilton, Katherine Bergstrom, Nehemoyia Young, Allegra Romita, Italy Welton, Kailey McCrudden, Julie Goldberg, Sarah Chien, A. Nia Austin-Edwards, Melanie Greene, Autumn Scoggan
with movement and inspiration from
2013 Greenwich Academy Dance Corps and University Settlement senior ballroom dancers at 184 Allen St.
sound score
Ebonie Smith
film
Damel Dieng
costumes/visual design
Ferima Faye
premiere casts
A: Katherine Bergstrom, Kayla Hamilton, Kimberly Mhoon, Rachel Russell, Candace Thompson-Zachery, Nehemoyia Young // B: Kailey McCrudden, Allegra Romita, Julie Goldberg, Italy Welton
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Media
ARTICLE: Our bodies, our business: SLMDances at University Settlement by Eva Yaa Asantewaa, InfiniteBody
ARTICLE: SLMDances Moves Toward Abundance in ‘Body Business’ by Alejandra Iannone, DIY dancer
ARTICLE: Review: BODYBUSINESS by Sydnie L. Mosley Dances by Jessica Abejar, Broadway World
PRESS RELEASE: Download here.
ARTICLE: The Economics of Dance—Dance’s Future According to the Numbers, Zachary Whittenburg, Dance Magazine
"Dancers so often tell the stories of others; here they finally told their own. The piece very appropriately premiered at University Settlement, America's first community center, where labor organizers gathered to demand a life worth living and jobs that wholly supported it.
Jessica Abejar, Broadway World
Funding + Performance Credits
The 2015 World Premiere of BodyBusiness was presented in marketing partnership with Dance/NYC, in creative collaboration with Our Goods, and as a part of The Performance Project at University Settlement’s 2015-16 Artist in Residency Program.