Published: Connecting Dance and City Planning by Brittany Delany

Stance on Dance published Brittany Delany’s article ‘Connecting Dance and City Planning’ in their spring/summer 2025 issue. 

The article illustrates how she engaged urban planners in Riverside, CA, to create “Grounding”, our site-specific work responding to sites and monuments representing the civil rights movement. She shares how creative expression, embodied in the form of dance, can be a powerful vehicle to draw people into advocacy and lively participation.

Read the article online: https://stanceondance.com/2025/04/21/brittany-delany/

Order a copy of the print publication visit stanceondance.com/print-publication.

Learn more about Grounding: https://www.groundseries.org/grounding Grounding responds to sites and monuments representing the civil rights movement to enliven the histories, reflect the struggles and strides, and animate our hearts and bodies into action. Choreographed and performed by Brittany Delany in collaboration with Riverside dancers Ana Cruz, Crystal Edwards, Edwin Sigüenza and Aisha Stewart, the ensemble dance emphasizes social dance, improvisation, collective joy and resilience.

This project asks, ‘How can dance illuminate sites and monuments representing the civil rights movement?’ The site-specific performance emerged at the Riverside Main Library, across from the Civil Rights Institute of Southern Inland California, on September 30, 2024. 

Learn more about Brittany Delany's work in Arts & Planning: https://brittanydelany.weebly.com/arts--planning.html

Photo credits: 1. Stance on Dance photo of issue opened to the article. 2. Photograph of Grounding by Jonathan Godoy, with text overlay design by Stance on Dance, shared on Instagram. 3. cover of Stance on Dance issue spring/summer 2025.