{"id":13799,"date":"2019-10-03T19:38:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T23:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=13799"},"modified":"2019-10-03T19:42:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T23:42:24","slug":"green-st-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2019\/10\/03\/green-st-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Visibility Dance\u2019 Planned After Green Street Studios Announces Closing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Cambridge\u2019s dance community are planning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/390559271623156\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cCircling the Dance Block &#8211; a Visibility Dance in Cambridge\u201d<\/a> for noon on Sunday, Oct. 27, in response to Green Street Studios announcement yesterday that the dance rehearsal and performance space plans to shut down on Oct 27 after 28 years in operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be an incredible loss to that community that is already lacking space,\u201d says Callie Chapman, founder and director of Studio at 550 located at 550 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, who is spearheading &#8220;Circling the Dance Block.&#8221; She has been involved with Green Street Studios as well as the Dance Complex over the years. The three institutions have represented a vital hub for \u201cthe support of movement in Cambridge and Greater Boston.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not going to fix anything,\u201d Chapman says of \u201cCircling the Dance Block.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s more like a visibility effort to say that we are here and there are a lot of us and sometimes you don\u2019t see it. \u2026 It\u2019s something for the [dance] community themselves to gather energy for whatever comes ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13802\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13802\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/picCirclingDanceBlock191003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13802\" src=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/picCirclingDanceBlock191003.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cCircling the Dance Block - a Visibility Dance in Cambridge\u201d planned for noon on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019.\" width=\"960\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/picCirclingDanceBlock191003.jpg 960w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/picCirclingDanceBlock191003-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/picCirclingDanceBlock191003-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/picCirclingDanceBlock191003-370x209.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cCircling the Dance Block &#8211; a Visibility Dance in Cambridge\u201d planned for noon on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Facebook event page explains: \u201cIn the wake of the news of Green Street Studios closing we are organizing a visibility dance that circles the block surrounding 3 dance organizations in Cambridge, Green Street Studios, The Dance Complex, and Studio at 550. We invite you to line up on the sidewalk at noon on the last day of operations for Green Street and be visible outside of the dance studios and along the sidewalks that connect them. If only in solidarity and celebration of 28 years that GSS has supported dancemaking in Greater Boston, but also to forge our own future to help sustain the future of dance in Cambridge by being visible en masse. You may bring signs, small gestures to pass along the line, or anything else that says \u2018we are here.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Previously:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2019\/10\/02\/green-st\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Street Dance Studios To Shut Down Due To \u2018Significant Rent Increase\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/wonderlandlandfanclub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And <a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don&#8217;t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Cambridge\u2019s dance community are planning \u201cCircling the Dance Block &#8211; a Visibility Dance in Cambridge\u201d for noon on Sunday, Oct. 27, in response to Green Street Studios announcement yesterday that the dance rehearsal and performance space plans to shut down on Oct 27 after 28 years in operation. \u201cIt will be an incredible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,109,110],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13799"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13805,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13799\/revisions\/13805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}