Closing in on closure by Celeste

As we begin to enter our last two big weeks of the MAP - the Dance Intensive week at Core Dance in Decatur and the Alternate ROOTS Gathering in North Carolina - it is time to reflect on the questions that guided the formation of this MAP:

What is exceptional practice for artists working in communities? Who defines exceptional practice?

How do the aesthetics of a community, and the aesthetics of a performance style, inform the approaches to art-making, communication, documentation, and archiving?

Whose voice is it?  When collaborating with non-professionals in the creation of work to be presented publicly for a general audience, what are the power relationships and dynamics?  What is "authorship"?

What is the role of art-making in social justice work?

What do we know now that we didn't know before, based on real-time experiences, about these ideas?