A hand drawn picture of an artichoke surrounded by the text Artichoke Dance Co.

Artichoke Dance Company

making movements happen

Location:Brooklyn

Contact Name Lynn Neuman

info@artichokedance.org

Website: https://www.artichokedance.org

About us

Artichoke Dance Company is a national leader in eco-performance productions and projects entertaining, engaging, and inspiring audiences, communities and organizations through performance, interactive education and participatory action. From stage productions to immersive performance tours to site inspired spectacles, Artichoke Dance Company is shaping and transforming approaches across the nation to center environmental justice and focus on resilience.

Programming / Repertoire / Offerings

Artichoke Dance Company creates site-specific and site-adaptive works as well as works for the stage. Please see https://www.artichokedance.org/projects for information about works and projects.

The Company’s educational offerings include Move with Me, movement workshops for every body, trashion, creating fashion from trash, and Performing Arts Activism, utilizing creative practices to address society’s most pressing challenges. See https://www.artichokedance.org/engage.

Artichoke Ambassadors is a training and mentorship program for artists of all mediums in merging their art making with activism focusing on climate change. See https://www.artichokedance.org/artichoke-ambassadors.

The Integrative Performance Project incorporates people from all walks of life into the creation and performance of works.

Venue Accessibility

Additional Accessibility Information:

Artichoke Dance Company does not operate a venue/physical location.

Organization/Business Type + Areas of Expertise

Artistic/creative directionChoreographyCommunity organizing and/or advocacyEducation (teaching artistry)Performance

Dance Styles & Movement Techniques

ContemporaryExperimentalInterdisciplinaryModernPostmodern

Media