"[The market has] become even tighter, even harder to find spaces, so there was this tremendous migration from Manhattan to the other boroughs to find space. Now, those other boroughs are actively competing with these tremendously large well-financed players pursuing these spaces.”

"I think we’re going to see more creative sharing of spaces – people are going to have to figure out ways to co-locate and collaborate in ways that will still be determined."

Watch the Town Hall online, to learn more about the contemporary landscape of rehearsal space in New York City.

Other Speakers included:

• Caitlin Trainor, Artist and Entrepreneur, Artistic Director of Trainor Dance and Founder of Dancio.com

• Carrie Blake, Senior Consultant & Research Director, Webb Management

• Craig Peterson, Executive Artistic Director at Abrons Arts Center

• Karisma Jay, Performing Arts, Professor and Executive Artistic Director of AbunDance (pronounced abundance) Academy of the Arts, Inc

• Pavan Thimmaiah, Artist, Choreographer, Director of PMT House of Dance (Head of the Dance Studio Alliance NYC)

• Ryan Gilliam, Executive Director, FABnyc

• Valerie Green, Executive/Artistic Director, Dance Entropy

• x sennyuen, Performance Artist, Curator, Choreographer