Sometimes I feel like I’m having the same conversation over and over. Whether I’m talking to artists, journalists, or social service types, the theme is always the same: If we’re going to survive — if we’re going to give the public what it wants — we need to pool our limited resources. Artists and other public servants of the world, unite!

Last Thursday, choreographer Heather Maloney called a meeting of Miami’s contemporary dance community. She has recently opened a lovely studio in Wynwood and invited her peers to dream up ways to fill the space.

More than a dozen dancers, choreographers, teachers, techies, and impresarios showed up. Though there was no formal agenda, the veterans in the room steered the talk to budget. Could the space survive supported by a collective of contemporary artists? Could the dance community bear even a rather modest cost for rehearsal space and occasional public peeks at works in progress? Probably not.

So there was talk of classes and commercial rental for film production and corporate events. Maybe the bigwigs of Wynwood could be tapped for some kind of help. There was talk of writing grants, and whether there would be any grants, and of the grueling, inevitable toll that the act of arts management always takes on the artist. When is there time left to make art? When is there time, even, to talk about art?

Well, for starters, there will be a few hours this Saturday. For the second “second Saturday” in a row, Maloney opens the studio so that the Wynwood flaneurs can see that the dancers are still dancing and  the choreographers are still making dances. Somehow the need to make art always transcends the necessary struggles of survival. Somehow.

The Inkub8r open studies series features José Manuel Dominguez, Lucia Aratanha, Joanne Barrett, Bob Eisen, and Heather Maloney on Saturday, November 14 at 9pm; 2021 NW 1st Place, Miami, FL, 33127; 305-482-1621; www.inkub8.org.