DNAWORKS (NYC/Santa Fe)
www.dnaworks.org

Co-founded in 2006 by Adam McKinney and Daniel Banks, Ph.D., DNAWORKS is an multi-disciplinary arts and service organization dedicated to furthering artistic expression and dialogue, focusing on issues of identity, culture, class, and heritage. McKinney and Banks catalyze performance and action through the arts in the intersecting communities in which they live and work.

McKinney is a former dancer with such esteemed companies as Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, B�jart Lausanne, Lines Ballet, and Milwaukee Ballet and is the Chair of the Dance Department at the New Mexico School for the Arts, Santa Fe. Banks taught at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, for 15 years and has directed dance and theatre productions at notable theatres around the world. McKinney and Banks formed DNAWORKS to bring to performance work and training a professional aesthetic that brings an attention to the needs of the planet and its people. Their philosophy is that art = ritual = healing = community. They believe that this philosophy and practice lead to a more peaceful world.

“McKinney is a magnetic and elegant dancer...“
- Micah Kelber, The Jewish Daily Forward

Touring Programs

HaMapah/המפה
A multi-media solo dance journey that traces the lineages of African, Native American, and Jewish heritages.

WE THE GRIOT workshop
By exploring heritage and identity, participants create physical and textual work together that tells the tale of their generation and backgrounds.

Belonging Everywhere
Film and dialogue developed to lead communities in conversations on issues of multiple identities, personal and communal return to Judaism, and the importance of testimony in the global Jewish community.