DANCE DANCE FOR LIBERATION: Community Teach-In with Dancers for Palestine

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Members of the Dancers for Palestine Lead Organizing Team will share our organizing strategy, successes and challenges in organizing the dance field, and the role of arts and culture in the movement for Palestinian Liberation. We will talk about our attempts to move the dance field into more significant, material solidarity with Palestine through the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). We will address the dance field’s specific histories and dynamics when it comes to organizing, as well as what dance can teach us about organizing within any discipline or community. We’ll answer questions and brainstorm with attendees about their specific struggles and curiosities, including Philadelphia-specific organizing tactics and potential targets for PACBI campaigns.

Dancers for Palestine (D4P) is an autonomous group of dance workers who organize in solidarity with the global movement for Palestinian liberation. Formed during Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza beginning in 2023, D4P seeks to both cohere and create a dance community which is vocal and active in its support of the Palestinian people. 

D4P is a local and international endeavor with a core organizing group in NYC and an ever expanding network of dancers and organizers working toward a dance field free from complicity in genocide, imperialism, white supremacy, and all systems of oppression. D4P’s work has included protest and direct action, political education events, art-based fundraising, and campaigns to move dance institutions into alignment with the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and against repressive anti-boycott policies. 

To join the movement, email dancersforpalestine@gmail.com and follow us on Instagram @dancers_for_palestine

Co-sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace-Philadelphia, Mascher Space Cooperative, Vox Populi, La La Lil Jidar, and ​​Yogis for Palestine.

Accessibility

This is a masked event. Please wear a KN95 mask (or better). You can remove your mask briefly to drink or eat. Please keep in mind that the venue is a mask-optional space, so there will be people passing through to attend yoga classes and therapy appointments who will not be masked.

Childcare is available upon request. 

Studio 34 is a sober space.

Studio 34 is up one flight of stairs.

The first part of the event from 12pm - 1:30pm will be livestreamed for those who are not able to attend in-person. The livestream link will be sent to all registrants the day before the event.