How To Make A Dance In America ← now online!

is a ‘zine I made (and re-made) to help folks with the basics of making and producing dance independently. You don’t need to wait for the grant, or the venue, or the perfect time.

You may be wondering:

What is the difference between a DMX & an XLR cable? How do I budget and make a rehearsal schedule for my independently produced dance show?

Or generally: Is it possible to be a DIY dance maker?

I got you.

This ‘zine came out of over a decade of producing my own dances in whatever weird, wonderful space I could get my hands on in Baltimore and Philly, 2008-2021. There wasn’t really funding, and/or I wasn’t willing to wait for it or confine my visions to fit within the available presenting platforms. For me, this is still the most magical kind of performance.

Shout out to Effervescent Collective and Urban Movement Arts, the grassroots organizations where I was able to develop and share my DIY skills

Friends at the Voxel Theater in Baltimore helped me turn it into a digital resource.

Every once in a while I re-print a hardcopy batch of the 'zine.

(If you ask nice I might send you a PDF to print it as a booklet at home.)

How To Make A Dance In America ← now online!