 Welcome to Dancer Citizen Live 2018 Moving the Map. I'm Julie B. Johnson, your host and the co-founding editor of The Dancer Citizen. I'm also a presenting artist in today's program. The Dancer Citizen is an online, open-access, scholarly, peer-reviewed journal exploring the work of socially engaged dance artists. Today we present Moving the Map to introduce you to the work of several Dancer citizens around the world. We're thrilled to offer this inaugural, single-day, multiple-sites, live-streamed dance event from Hamburg, Germany, Los Angeles, California, New York, New York, Atlanta, Georgia, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Contributors to the first five issues of The Dancer Citizen were invited into collaborative process with the journal with the aim of more deeply exploring themes that were generated from the issues. The participating artists' contributions demonstrate the power and the range of Dancer citizenship. The participating artists' contributions demonstrate the range of power and possibility of the work of Dancer citizens. Today we begin in Hamburg, Germany with artists Iria Arenas, J.K.L. Collective, and Hannah Schwadrin. Next we take it to New York with artists Heather Harrington, Myra Duarte, and Christina Castro-Touser. We then head over to Atlanta with me, Julie B. Johnson, in collaboration with Storyground, a dance collective, artist-activist Charmaine Minifields, and live music by O.K. Cello. We finish in Los Angeles with artists Allison Weiber and Bernard Brown, and Sonya Destri will make special pop-up appearances from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We invite you the audience to join us on location or via livestream for our performances, workshops, and dialogue. To access the livestream, to view artist bios, to read the full program or learn more about each event, go to www.dancercitizen.org. This is also where you can revisit the archive of the full event at any time, or leave feedback and questions in the comment section on the live stream channel. We'd like to thank our live streaming host, HowlRound. HowlRound is a free and open platform for theater makers worldwide that amplifies progressive, disruptive ideas about the art form and facilitates connections between diverse practitioners. We also thank our generous donors, funding partners, and venues who all helped to make moving the map a reality. We now take you to Hamburg, Germany, with Iria Arenas, Jkl Collective, and Hannah Squadron. Enjoy!