Writer + Speaker

Candace speaks to her experience as a dancer, choreographer, cultural producer and expert on Caribbean culture.

Panelist: Immigrants. Dance. Arts: Supporting Immigrant Dance Artists in a Changing United States, Dance/USA 2019 Annual Conference, June 13 2019 Cleveland, OH
Facilitator: SharedSpace program facilitator at Mark Morris Dance Center, June 2019
Presenter: Butterfly Burning: performativity and aesthetics | Contemporary African Art Fair 1-54 FORUM at Industria NY, May 2019
Presentation: Caribbean/The Future: National, Regional and Diaspora Considerations at the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University, CT, February 2019
Staying Motivated Through Cultural Entrepreneurship for the Fabulous Fempreneurship podcast, December 2018
Charting A Life as Culture Maker for the Secret Birds podcast, August 2018
Immigrant and Foreign Born Artists in NYC Dance Workforce Panel for Dance NYC Symposium 2018
DCC Townhall 2017: Cultural Appropriation in Caribbean Culture, June 2017
Dance Enthusiast - Moving Caribbean in NYC a performance and panel discussion, November 2016
Preserving Caribbean Culture Through Dance for Carry On Friends podcast, September 2016
Dancing While Black presents at BAX Artist Services Day panel, February 2016

2015 Carnival Studies Mas Colloquium - 'Mas Aesthetics: Exploring the Art of Mas' - presenting the talk 'Soca Dance Movement as it tells the story of Contemporary Carnival', April 2015

Commissioned Essay: “The Invisible Work of Audience Development: Creating Connections in Immigrant Communities” for the Advancing Immigrants.Dance.Arts. research report by Dance NYC
Our Caribbean Spirit Blog Article: St. Lucia Alive in East Flatbush
Dancing While Black Reflections on the 2016 Dancing the African Diaspora Conference by Candace Thompson on Angela's Pulse Blog
Dear Friends and Well Wishers blog - candanceculture.blogspot.com