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International Museum of Dance-IMOD We explore dance forms throughout all regions and cultures of the world.

The International Museum of Dance invites all people to explore why we dance, through innovative exhibitions, diverse educational programs, and accessible archival collections.

Many empty spaces like this sit in urban environments around the world.International Museum of Dance is a future forward...
09/10/2026

Many empty spaces like this sit in urban environments around the world.

International Museum of Dance is a future forward museum. We know how we will fill the spaces we occupy. The audiences? Everyone. The actors? Artists- dancers, choreographers, musicians, historians, set designers, immersive designers, fashion collaborators, sound techniciansโ€ฆ the experience? Immersive, playful exhibitions learning dance styles and steps. A school. Modular performance and presentation spaces. Our global digital archive. Community spaces for youth and families and of course, a cafe and IMOD merch retail shop.

Who is funding this? We are going for BIG and BOLD funds and need your support. When you sign our ledger at www.museumdance.org you reveal the public and community interest in the first ever global museum for dance.

Sign today and bring us one step closer to making a dream, a reality.

Can you imagine along with us?There are many empty buildings that are calling for artists- one here of many, sitting, wa...
09/10/2026

Can you imagine along with us?

There are many empty buildings that are calling for artists- one here of many, sitting, waitingโ€ฆ.IMOD just happens to be a collective of dance artists that sees how dance can activate space, bring people together, and center dance all over the world- while also encouraging joy, connection and love.

Believe a new museum, where community meets global movement, meets art, called International Museum of Dance deserves to exist?

We would love you to get behind our idea and sign our ledger. It takes TWO MINUTES and demonstrates to big funders how serious we, as a collective are, toward art being the solution to many of our collective problems- including social isolation, anxiety and depression.

Sign the ledger at www.museumdance.org and help us bring INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF DANCE into existence!

09/08/2026

Not artificial intelligence.

Artist Integrity.
Artistic Ingenuity.
Athletic Intuition.
Attuned Impulse.
ART IS INTELLIGENCE.

International Museum of Dance exists to centralize, serve and celebrate, in global scope, the art and language of dance.

Artists featured:

Believe in what we are doing? Think there should be a new museum just for dance? Sign your name at www.museumdance.org

09/03/2026

Nobody remembers exactly everything they learned at a museum.

But they do remember how it felt.

Dr. John Falk spent fifty years asking people why they go. A month after a visit, more than 99% said the experience had affected their wellbeing. Almost none described what they learned. They described feeling calmer. More curious. Less alone.

We are information rich and meaning poor. Nobody needs a building to look something up anymore. We are short on soaces where people feel something at the same time.

IMOD exists to centralize, serve and celebrate, in global scope, the art and language of dance.

Nothing under glass. A museum you move through.

Sign your name at museumdance.org and support our museum to fruition.

American Alliance of Museums Zoe Poulis

09/02/2026

You know this lift. Jennifer Grey

So where is this best moment kept, and shared, perhaps even re-lived?

Not the film. Studios protect films. We mean the rehearsal footage, the choreography, the dancers who built the lift before anyone filmed it. And the thousands of dances with no studio behind them at all, sitting on failing hard drives and disappearing with the people who carry them.

Dance history exists in fragments. We are building the first museum that holds it together. Nothing under glass. Everything built to be experienced.

Five hundred names will found it. Ninety-eight so far.

Sign your name at museumdance.org

InternationalMuseumOfDance

09/01/2026

IMOD celebrates an art form that has never stopped inventing itself.

Hip, as in now. Hop, as in move.



Dance is the only major art form without a museum. Weโ€™re building the first one, and five hundred names will found it. 96 so far. Read about what we are actually building and add yours at museumdance.org.

IMOD exists to centralize, serve and celebrate, in global scope, the art and language of dance.

08/25/2026

Jock Soto Day was a celebration, a massive collaboration, and also unto itself, its own constellation.

Dance is connected, and is, unto itself, a connector.

From now until the end of this year, IMOD is raising $150,000 to build the first ever GLOBAL digital constellation of as many dance partners as we can support, across the globe! The digital software is built by ACMI - and our first partners, are The Library for the Performing Arts , who of course, will be putting Jock Soto on the map. That means, then, ๐—ฆ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐——๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฆ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ถ ๐—Ÿ๐—ฎ๐—ฅ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ will be on the map, and Festival Ballet Albuquerque and Ballet TAOS, and on and on and on it will go!

This digital repository will be a connected sky of STARS, and inside every star, a world of possibilities.

$12,000 was committed just today, which means we have $138,000 to go. Help us save and protect dance stories! Make your donation today and/or share at www.museumdance.org/constellation

๐Ÿชถ๐Ÿฆ‹โœจ๐Ÿฉท ๐—ฆ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐——๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฆ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ถ ๐—Ÿ๐—ฎ๐—ฅ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ

A picture (or a dance) is worth 1,000 words, but we will try a few ro celebrate last night.Jock Soto day is a celebratio...
08/24/2026

A picture (or a dance) is worth 1,000 words, but we will try a few ro celebrate last night.

Jock Soto day is a celebration of Jock Sotoโ€™s life and career in dance and his invaluable dedication to the state of New Mexico upon his return home. International Museum of Dance hosted the first Jock Soto Day last year at the Lensic Performing Arts Center theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where the Navajo Nation deemed August 23 โ€œJock Soto Day.โ€

Every year on this date, the International Museum of Dance honors Jock Soto through performance, film, and public engagement.

Yesterday, 8/23/26, the second annual Jock Soto Day was celebrated with Festival Ballet Albuquerque and Ballet Taos Festival Ballet Albuquerque Ballet TAOS with choreography from Jock Soto himself.

Each year, IMOD and Jock Soto select a โ€œJock Soto Scholar,โ€ who through the support of the Museum, receives a $2,500 unrestricted scholarship to continue dancing! In 2025, Heloha Tate was awarded this scholarship, Jerod Tate and this year, Vonn Kronberg received the award, a student of Festival Ballet Albuquerque since age 6 and with Jock Soto since age 12.

We are so grateful to the Sandia Preparatory School for hosting last nightโ€™s beautiful event, to the City if Albuquerque office of Indian affairs with Mayor Tim Keller CABQ Dept of Arts & Culture , to the Navajo Nation 25th Navajo Nation Council and all the dancers whose generosity filled all of our hearts with joy and hope.

Photos:
1- A nod to Edward Degas, Vonn Kronberg backstage with Festival Ballet Albuquerque dancers
2- Jock Soto with Jesse Campbell Jesse Campbell
3- The final bow, IMOD Founder and CEO Hilary Palanza Gutkin awarding Jock Soto and Vonn Kronberg

Our extra special thanks to Patricia Dickinson of Festival Ballet Albuquerque and Megan Yakovich of Ballet Taos

08/14/2026

Jock Soto Day is almost here.

Sunday, August 23 ยท 7:00 pm
Sandia Preparatory School, 532 Osuna Rd NE, Albuquerque

Sliding scale, $25 suggested ยท museumdance.org/jock-soto-day

The evening opens with hoop dance, which is a fitting place to start.

Long before he was a Principal Dancer with New York City Ballet, Jock knew about hoop dance from his mother, Josephine Towne, in Gallup. She danced herself, at a time when women in her culture traditionally did not.

Opening this year is ShanDien Sonwai LaRance ๐—ฆ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐——๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฆ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ถ ๐—Ÿ๐—ฎ๐—ฅ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ , Hopi, Tewa, Navajo and Assiniboine, one of the foremost hoop dancers working today. She started at eight, taught by her older brother Nakotah LaRance, a nine time World Champion who shaped the art form for the dancers who followed him. Nakotah was born on August 23, the same date the Navajo Nation set aside for Jock in 2025. โœจ

August 23 represents two families, generations of tremendous artists, dancers and keepers of cultural expression, on one date.

We would love to see you there.

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