Making Moves: Houston

The National Center for Choreography-Akron (NCCAkron) will present Making Moves: Houston on January 14, 2026 at Brazos Bookstore. Making Moves: Houston is a free panel discussion featuring contributing authors from Artists on Creative Administration as well as local arts case studies. Panelists will include Houston native and NCCAkron Founding Executive/Artistic Director Christy Bolingbroke (Akron, OH) and other artists to be announced.

NCCAkron is the only currently operating national center for choreography in the U.S., a research and development hub for dance. Artists on Creative Administration: A Workbook from the National Center for Choreography is an arts and creative life book recently published in 2024 by The University of Akron Press. Edited by artist/cultural strategist Tonya Lockyer (Suquamish, WA) this book features essays from and interviews with 30 artists and advocates from the dance and performing arts worlds, sharing first-hand stories of creative administration in action through case studies, interviews, life tools, and experiments.