EMCArts Innovation Team

In 2014, the UBW staff, company and a team of stakeholders began work through the EmcArts Innovation Lab for Performing Arts to explore the following question: "How can we catalyze a paradigmatic shift in how the dance field identifies and nurtures female choreographers of color?"  

Innovation Team members included:

• Tammy Bormann, Chair of the UBW Board of Directors

• Sandra Burton, Lipp Family Director of Dance and Senior Lecturer in Dance, Willams College

• Jennifer Calienes, National Arts Consultant and Former Founding Director, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography

• Gayle Fekete, Professor of New Dance and Cultures at California State Polytechnic University

• Marjani Forté, Choreographer and Urban Bush Women BOLD Facilitator

• James Frazier, Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Faculty Affairs, School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University

• Anna Glass, Producer

• Germaine Ingram, Choreographer

• Sam Miller, President, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

• Lai-Lin Robinson, UBW Associate Producer

• Jonathan D. Secor, UBW Producing Partner

• John Shibley, Process Facilitator, EmcArts

• Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, UBW Founder/Visioning Partner