A Rift Over Art and Activism Ripples Through the Performance World
A Rift Over Art and Activism Ripples Through the Performance World A dispute between the director of Peak Performances and an Indigenous choreographer hinged on workplace behavior, power and the boundary between art and social justice. The choreographer Emily Johnson doing a land acknowledgment at Abrons Art Center in 2018.Credit...Dolly Faibyshev for The New York Times March 12, 2021 At a conference of performing arts presenters, in January 2020, Jedediah Wheeler, the executive director of Peak Performances at Montclair State University in New Jersey, introduced the choreographer Emily Johns...
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