Working Agreements

What is a working agreement? Why and when are they useful? And, more importantly, how do you create one that serves the humanity and needs of all involved?

Pam Tzeng is happy to share what they do know: personal learnings, anecdotes, helpful micro-skills and a score for conversation to practice together and take home. All for the sake of highlighting the value and relational possibilities of creating working agreements in the context of dance and interdisciplinary projects and collaborations. 

This offering emerges from Pam’s ongoing collaboration with Bianca Guimarães de Manuel and their research focused on developing embodied, anti-oppressive ways of making and relating through praxis. 

We invite all who want to share their own annual dance cycles, including artists, collaborators, leaders, partners and audiences from diverse dance communities. What annual activity do we all need to be aware of in your dance world? By investigating our own rhythms, ceremonies and dance desires, where do we see our relationship to Dancemakers, yearly? Do you have suggestions for Dancemakers to show Reciprocity? What do you want Dancemakers to Offer that would work with your cycle?

We also invite those interested in viewing the collection of responses, to gain a partial and growing vision of Toronto’s multiple dance communities.