CRCI 2025: Moondance

“Unlike Any Conference I Have Ever Attended.”

Photo by Martin Nuñez-Bonilla.

The Conference

CRCI 2025: Moondance was the annual gathering of the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces (CRCI) at Brown University.

Over three days, 150+ attendees, artists, researchers, technologists, scientists, and practitioners came together for panels, performances, workshops, installations, and shared meals.

Produced end-to-end by Consciously Produced.

Photo by Martin Nuñez-Bonilla.

CP's Role

Consciously Produced served as Executive Producer for the full event, managing all logistics, programming support, catering, photo and video documentation, sponsor acquisition, participant communications, and on-site production.

CP also produced the custom conference welcome video and the printed program.

Our work included:

  • Full conference production + logistics

  • Multi-venue coordination

  • Programming support + run of show

  • Catering sourcing + management

  • Sponsor acquisition + management

  • Custom welcome video production

  • Printed program design

  • Photo + video documentation

  • Live captioning coordination

  • Participant communications + prep

  • Consent waiver coordination

  • On-site production team

150+ attendees across 3 days

100% of respondents said it exceeded expectations

33 facilitators + presenters across 3 days

3 venues across Brown University campus

The CP Difference

A conference bringing together dance, technology, space research, and critical inquiry asks for more than strong logistics. It requires an understanding of how all of those pieces come together and how people move through the experience.

For CP, that meant paying attention to the whole experience: the atmosphere, the care infrastructure, the accessibility details, and the flow between sessions. The programming could be rigorous while the experience still felt thoughtful, welcoming, and human.

Photo by Martin Nuñez-Bonilla.

Accessibility + Care

CP coordinated live captioning for all main stage sessions, sensory accommodations, dietary access across catering, and consent protocols for documentation.

A dedicated care table stocked with period products, fidgets, vitamin packets, masks, coloring books, and wellness essentials ensured attendees had what they needed to stay present and focused throughout the conference.

Multiple attendees independently cited the accessibility infrastructure as unlike anything they had experienced at a professional conference.


“The level of congeniality was unlike any conference I have ever attended. Having CP leadership be readily accessible and eager to talk made the conference feel less hierarchical and more communal.”

“CRCI was an angelic gathering disguised as a conference, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it ever since.”

Previous
Previous

Space Camp: Where Dance Meets Outer Space

Next
Next

Girl, Undrunk: Sobriety Never Sounded So Good