Since taking the helm at Danspace Project in 2008, Judy Hussie-Taylor (Executive Director and Chief Curator) has developed a critically-acclaimed series, the PLATFORMS, featuring new contexts for performing arts presenting. She is on the Advisory Committee for the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance, a program of Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, co-founded in partnership with Danspace Project. She received the first “Bessie” Award ever given for dance curation in 2016 and was conferred a Chevalier D’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 2014.