Judy Hussie-Taylor

About Judy Hussie-Taylor

Ms. Hussie-Taylor is Executive Director & Chief Curator of Danspace Project where she has developed a critically-acclaimed signature series of artist curated performance platforms and publications. She was a participant in the Lunder Institute\'s summer 2025 think tank organized by Erica Wall at Colby College and from 20••••25 she curated performance and film collaborations with Joan Jonas, Eiko Otake, Ishmael Houston-Jones, and Bebe Miller among many other leading dance, multidisciplinary and performance based artists. Hussie-Taylor was the curator of the acclaimed \"Judson Now\" celebrating the 50th anniversary of Judson Dance Theater. She has developed research programs focused on dialogue, practice, and exchange in the arts collaborating with artists Okwui Okpokwasili, Samita Sinha, David Thomson, and devynn emory. She was a co-founder of the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP), a program of Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University (20••••21). Her curatorial work has been featured six time in The New York Times including being named a cultural “Movers and Shaper”. Hussie-Taylor received a New York \"Bessie\" Award for outstanding curation and a prestigious \"Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres\" from the French Government.

Experience

1. Executive Director & Chief Curator

   Danspace Project

   Jan 2008 — Present · New York, NY, US

Skills

• Public Speaking
• Nonprofits
• Grant Writing
• Research
• Performing Arts
• Arts Administration
• Theatre
• Fundraising