Author: Sophie Myrtil-McCourty
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WAA attendees, don’t miss the CONTRA-TIEMPO juried showcase on 8/27 at 6.50pm!
The company will perform an excerpt from their new piece ‘joyUS justUS’. To learn more please click here.
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Times Union preview / Reggie Wilson: ‘A layered exploration of movement’
“I had heard about black Quakers because of their involvement with the Underground Railroad and abolition, but it hadn’t occurred to me that there might be black Shakers,” Wilson said in a recent interview. He was curious about how a Shaker community would function in an urban environment, how Shaker worship might shift in different…
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The Berkshire Edge / Reggie Wilson: ‘Music, Art, and Dance Coming to Hancock Shaker Village’
‘During a recent residency at the Pillow Lab and Hancock Shaker Village, Brooklyn-based Reggie Wilson Fhpg has created POWER with his Fist and Heel Performance Group, which imagines what black Shaker worship would have been like. The Shakers welcomed African American members into their communities as early as the late 1700s, assisted fugitive slaves along the Underground Railroad,…
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Philly Voice: ‘Photos: Local Churches Set the Stage for New Dance Performance’
Read the article here.
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The Brooklyn Rail: ‘Kyle Abraham’s Live! The Realest MC’
‘Without being too heavy handed, Abraham drops in just enough narrative and evocative gesture between pure dance passages for viewers to intuit a larger sense of the implied themes. In The Realest MC, the hot button topics of gender expression, assimilation, bullying, and appropriation simmer with the threat of boiling over every now and then.…
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Whyy/Reggie Wilson: ‘Experimental Dance Performance Mixes ’High Art’ With Historic Philly Churches’
Read and/or listen to the interview here.