To The Dancer-Citizen Community,

It is with heavy hearts that we announce that Jane Alexandre, Founding Editor of The Dancer-Citizen, passed away on February 16th from ALS. 

She worked in the New York dance world for more than 30 years as a performer, writer, teacher, choreographer, director, producer and administrator. In recent years, she served as a lecturer in theology and the arts at Union Theological Seminary. To those of us on the Dancer-Citizen team, she was a mother, a friend, a collaborator, a mentor, and so much more. As a resident of Tarrytown, NY for over 40 years, Jane was instrumental in ensuring access to dance for all in the community, guided by principles best described in her own words:

“I hold the convictions that dance is an intrinsic and universal human activity; that each of us has a social responsibility to all others; and that the opportunity to reach our individual capabilities in every realm is a basic human right”.

The Dancer-Citizen grew out of Jane's commitment to collectively making and claiming space for conversations about the unique embodied knowledge dancers hold about belonging, mutual obligation, and human rights. All whom have contributed to, read, shared, and supported this endeavor affirm the principles that she lived by, and the mission of The Dancer-Citizen. We thank you.

Welcome to The Dancer-Citizen, an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal exploring the work of socially engaged dance artists.

This endeavor grows out of our belief in the role of the artist as public intellectual, our curiosity about how dancers observe, explain and comment on the world, and an understanding of the obligation we hold to seek and develop solutions for the challenges facing the communities in which we live and work. We recognize that our diverse roles, experiences, and perspectives as practitioners constitute a unique body of knowledge in the world.

Issues 1-19 are now available. Please visit Submissions for more details on how to submit your work for future issues.

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