Open to registrants of the APAP conference.
Co-moderated by Dan Froot, Kathryn Garcia (ED of Live Arts Miami), Melissa Salguero (Community Outreach Director at Utah Presents), Kristina Wong
"Choreographing the Campus" is a participatory workshop that offers a deep dive into the potential of performing arts projects to unite and inspire college campuses, while extending their reach to surrounding communities. This session will explore how artists, campus presenters, agents, and university communities can collaborate to weave the performing arts into the fabric of academic and communal life. Through rich discussion and shared insights, attendees will examine how performing arts projects can serve as catalysts for interdisciplinary connections and foster genuine reciprocity between artists and campus stakeholders. The workshop will delve into questions of scale, fit, and strategy—asking how to determine the "right" project, artist, and partners, as well as the appropriate time and resources to build meaningful and lasting engagement.
The panel will share successful models of collaboration where the arts have activated institutional missions and broadened campus-community ties. The workshop will invite participants to consider the sustained work required to establish reciprocal relationships, focusing on the value of advance visits, multi-year engagements, and evaluations to maximize impact. Ultimately, this session will help campus presenters, artists, and agents envision how arts-based projects can leave campuses stronger—cultivating new faculty and student relationships, enhancing community ties, and positioning the arts as essential to the university's goals. The discussion will encourage participants to reflect on how artists can become integral leaders within campus ecosystems, and how collaborative projects can lead to deeper, more enduring relationships across institutional boundaries.