After speaking with Griff Braun about freelance dancers unionizing, we spoke with Evvie Allison and David Gonsier about how a dance union works for those currently represented by a union.

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Dance Forum Compact: https://s3.amazonaws.com/NYFA_WebAssets/Pictures/1d633b67-07c1-403c-aa78-8132f0fe9825.pdf

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Melanie Greene

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Evvie Allison

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Dance Magazine Article: https://www.dancemagazine.com/freelance-dancers-union-2579158664.html

David Gonsier

IG: @Goneserious

This week, we are celebrating our birthdays!!! Melanie's bday is 3/31 and J's is 4/1 and we thought it would be great to just share some of the casual conversations we have with one another on the podcast so you all can get to know us a little better as well. ENJOY!

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Maria Bauman Show at BAX: www.mbdance.net/calendar/

Melanie Greene

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Mai Le and Coel joined us in the studio to talk about the notorious absence and erasure of urban dance from academia and the concert stage.

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Maria Bauman Show at BAX: http://www.mbdance.net/calendar/

Melanie Greene

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Mai Le

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LayeRythm http://www.layerhythm.org/

IG: @@LayeRhythm

Coel

IG: @Coelsky

We met with David Thomson to speak about his Sustainability Project that helps dance artists explore sustainable practices of making art.

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Maria Bauman Show at BAX: http://www.mbdance.net/calendar/

Melanie Greene

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David Thomson

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*Resources*

Dancers Form Compact - https://s3.amazonaws.com/NYFA_WebAssets/Pictures/1d633b67-07c1-403c-aa78-8132f0fe9825.pdf

Artist U -

http://www.artistsu.org/

It's Time to Unionize!

AGMA Director of Organizing and Outreach, Griff Braun, joined us via Skype to talk about what a union for freelance dancers can look like, what AGMA is doing to support, and how we all can get behind this.

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Melanie Greene

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Griff Braun

Musicalartists.org

We were joined in the studio by Sara Roer and Helen Fourness to discuss body positivity and positively affirming our bodies in dance while we snacked on nuts and brownies!

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Melanie Greene

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Sara Roer

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Helen Fourness

IG: @Velvetkensington

Ricarrdo Valentine joined us this week to talk about the idea of a Black Healing Month and Black Exceptionalism in Dance.

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Melanie Greene

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Support Melanie's FunDraiser!

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Ricarrdo Valentine

https://www.bhooddance.com/

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Through the lens of dance and pornography film making, we discuss the importance of consent and empowering voices with Mahx Capacity.

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Melanie Greene

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Mahx Capacity

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Welcome to the first Black History Month podcast! We were joined by Orlando Hunter of Brother(hood) Dance! to talk about blackness in dance!

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Melanie Greene

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Orlando Hunter

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Diane Tomasi joined us in the studio this week to talk about aerial work after a conversation on Fyre Festival fraud and the con-artist in our White House.

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Melanie Greene

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Diane Tomasi

http://www.thisbodylives.com/