2025 Creative Aging Winter Institute

Take a deep dive into intersection of the arts and aging during Dance Exchange’s 2025 Creative Aging Winter Institute.

January 17-19, 2025

Join movers, makers, artists, and leaders from communities near and far to explore tools and practices for working with older adults. This Institute explores intergenerational collaboration through Dance Exchange’s creative tools and practices and celebrates the role that dance can play in supporting movers of all ages in cultivating lifelong connection, creativity, and meaning.

As part of our Organizing with Artists for Change Initiative (OAC), Dance Exchange Institutes embrace process and performance, dialogue and dancemaking, and the role of artists as changemakers.

The 2025 Creative Aging Winter Institute will include:

• Sessions and workshops that explore Dance Exchange’s legacy in creative aging

• Intergenerational collaboration

• Reflection sessions that support you in integrating your explorations and discoveries into your own life, work, and community

Schedule

Online Track

Please note that the online track has been cancelled this year. Please register below to join us in-person!

Tuition

Early Bird Tuition (Register by December 6):

In-Person Track: $275

Online Track: $215

Regular Tuition (Register after December 6):

In-Person Track: $300

Online Track: $240

Returning Participant Discount: If you have participated in an Institute in the past, you are eligible for a $20 discount for either track.

Takoma Park Residents: Residents of Takoma Park, MD receive a 50% discount for either track.

Refund Policy: If you are unable to attend after paying in full, your payment can be credited to a future Organizing with Artists for Change Institute within one calendar year. Please email registration@danceexchange.org.

Shula Strassfeld Memorial Scholarship

Each year, we award a scholarship to a Winter Institute participant in honor of Shula, a longtime DX company member, loving mother, devoted friend, and always an advocate that everyone dance as much as possible. This full-tuition scholarship, generously funded by Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario, is awarded to a participant who mirrors Shula's dedication to creative aging and/or who shares a connection to her Jewish identity, which played a significant role in her creative practice. Register for Winter Institute by December 1 to be considered for the scholarship.

Questions?

With questions, please email registration@danceexchange.org or call (301) 270-6700. 

We look forward to gathering, moving and making with you in January.