TROUBLEMAKER: PUBLIC WORKS

Its Simple

Dance education as youth development means collaborative creative processes that give voice to the communities being served.

arts infrastructure is civil infrastructure

Past Projects | How it Works

  1. Public Works are born in conditions of friction where access is limited, systems are strained, or existing models no longer serve the people inside them.
  1. Public Works depend on institutional trust, community partnerships, and treatment of the children not as participants to be managed, but as collaborators whose ideas shape the outcome.
  1. Public Works are both the visible artistic outcome: performances, films, programs – and the underlying infrastructure that makes them possible: relationships with families, new ways of teaching and working, and durable pathways for access and participation.