Since its inception, as STUFFED: Dinner + Dance in 2011, STUFFED Arts has existed as a platform for free creative expression. Focused on equitable and inclusive community gatherings that nourish the artist, the audience, the body, and the soul, STUFFED Arts’ programs synergize 4 basic human needs all under one roof: food, art, space, community. 

 

STUFFED Arts is for everyone. Quarterly free Dinner + Dance events held at Judson Memorial Church in NYC, share the beauty of communal dinners and high caliber dance performance with everyone from the hardened New Yorker to the new transplant, the hungry and cold to the transient tourist. Participating artists receive time to work and explore choreographic ideas in Judson’s iconic sanctuary followed by the opportunity to perform on a shared program of 2-4 artists.

 

The annual D.A.N.C.E (Dancing And Nourishing Community Engagement) program offers low tuition movement classes and an Artist in Residence Program. This program is an opportunity for pre-professional and professional participants to work with D.A.N.C.E Artists in Residence, and allows the choreographers time, space and a community to develop new creative ideas. The program includes daily shared meals, conversations with NYC community arts activists, and a final informal showing.

 

In the wake of the 2020 global health & humanitarian crisis and the call to reflect and dismantle systems of oppression, racism, and overt monopolies of power in organizations in the United States and abroad, STUFFED Arts will implement (effective immediately) programming efforts that expand its artistic community and give voice to artists within its organization via a peer-to-peer pay it forward selection process for all programming.

 

These programs are in flux as we adapt to respond to proactively inclusive programming. We believe this new model will support our ongoing efforts to support the widest range of artists possible in NYC.