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Over the course of Danspace’s 50th year, we will be celebrating the community, artworkers, and artists that have made these 50 years so fabulous. Danspace has invited 50+ artists with special connections to Danspace to create short films in response to the prompt “The Future Is…”  Artists representing all five decades, from the 1970s to the present, were invited to record a 50-second dance or performance.

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“Danspace Project is an artist-centered organization, founded by artists, fueled by artists’ ideas, and inspired by their visions! There are hundreds of amazing artists who have graced our space over 50 years. For our 50th anniversary video project, we elected to invite 50 artists who, in addition to their artistic work, have also served Danspace in an official administrative or volunteer  capacity,” writes Danspace’s Executive Director and Chief Curator Judy Hussie-Taylor. “These include artists who have served on our Board of Directors, Artists Advisory Board, Admin & Tech Staff or more recently as Research Fellows. We are grateful to all of them for their behind-the-scenes work and commitment to Danspace’s mission.” 

The future is possible. Ursula Eagly 

The future is EXTRATERRESTRIAL! Christopher Williams

The future is uncertain and magnificent in its unpredictability. Heidi Latsky

The future is now, so LIVE! jaamil olawale kosoko

The future is unknown. Douglas Dunn

The future is our beloved Danspace for another 50 plus years! Muna Tseng

The future is Living Room and Backyard performing. Barbara Dilley

The future is to continue to believe in “青春の夢に忠実であれ”. In every single notebook sincerely, I wrote this on the first page. Nami Yamamoto

The future is as familiar as the past. David Parker

The future is LOVE. David Dorfman

The future is buoyant… & speechless. Andros Zins-Browne

The future is in our intentions. Peggy Cheng

The future is here. Mina Nishimura

The future is full of friendly faces. maura nguyen donohue

The future is difficult, beautiful, hopeful and hard-won; just like dancing. Juliette Mapp

The future is reverent. Angie Pittman

The future is a mystery. Unknowable. Yet we can affect it. Working hard for a better future can indeed improve the chances of a better future. Carol Mullins

The future is many tomorrows. Eiko Otake

The future is up to us: “[It] is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” William Shakespeare iréne Hultman Monti

The future is a reflection; a refraction; a reminder; a resource. Niko Tsocanos

The future is always anyways already here. NOW! DD Dorvillier

The future is in service of our bodies. Larissa Velez-Jackson

The future is what keeps us going. Rashaun Mitchell

The future is trance. Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez

The future is walking backwards into the unknown. In other words, the future is an ever-expanding now that layers memories, wounds, hopes, projections, and plans; the movement of these inseparable elements, how they change. Nora Raine Thompson

The future is….infinite….. Sarah Skaggs

The future is about listening, dreaming and hope. David Thomson

The future is dire. Benedict Nguyễn

The future is light. Jordan Demetrius Lloyd

The future is free. Jasmine Hearn

The future is Museum Choreography. Jonah Bokaer

The Future is dependent upon the Dance. Reggie Wilson

The future is disabled (Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha), accessible (Annie Segarra), cripped (yeah. that’s me.) Alice Sheppard

The future is body sovereignty. the freedom to follow the intended path of where the spirit leads the body. devynn emory

The future is breath, finding it and losing it. Ogemdi Ude

The future is what grows from what we tend to in the present. Tatyana Tenenbaum

The future is fluid. Abby Harris Holmes

The future is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Wally Cardona

The future is here. Cynthia Hedstrom

The future is great. Benjamin Akio Kimitch

The future is (eventually) the past. Ain Gordon

The future is (despite what I am often told) within our grasps. Trajal Harrell

The future is expansive. It’s what I need — what I want. Melinda Ring

The future is Danspace Project now! Donna Uchizono

The future is… Hilary Easton

The Future is what our descendents will come to know as the past. Miguel Gutierrez

The future is an unwieldy inheritance. Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born

The future is nested and remnant and able. Asiya Wadud

The future is as it will be. Tendayi Kuumba 

The future is in our hands (Take what you need). Yvonne Rainer 

The future is ZELDA. Jodi Bender