Category: Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group

‘Wilson showed us the beauty of embodiment and invited us to partake of beautiful, powerful dance, and a moment of instant village and collective effervescence.’ Read the full article here

‘As the piece came to an end, there was a sense of a shared experience where a group’s power was strengthened by its numbers, the common beliefs of its members and their surrender to something greater than themselves. Perhaps a utopian view far from our world today, but one where simplicity and freedom were guiding…

‘POWER is a “kaleidoscopic set of possibilities” of what Black Shaker life and worship might have been.“Maybe they would have changed ‘Tis a Gift to Be Simple’ to sound like this, maybe they would have changed this gesture and this song or this marching to look like this because they are human beings,” he said,…

‘What the piece does is imagine what that worship could have looked like. So it’s not a narrative about Black women and spirituality, but it’s not not about that. It’s not trying to demonstrate to you, “Here’s a Black woman and this is how she worshipped and this is her story.” It’s not narrative in any way,…

It seems impossible to overstate the impact of experiencing such a collective spirit in motion after two years of a pandemic that has caused us to still be afraid of close unguarded proximity with one another. But for 70 minutes, all those fears receded in the wake of something bigger, boundless, and yes, more powerful.…

” How do you bring yourself in relationship to others? By being fully yourself. And it’s not about minimizing or squishing yourself, but about tailoring or customizing it to be able to exist next to another. “ Read the full article here.

‘For Danspace Project’s Platform 2021: The Dream of the Audience, choreographer Reggie Wilson offers his first solo performance in years: “Come and Go ‘Piece a ‘Way.” The choreography for this short dance film was created by virtually gathering prompts and movement material from the 10 members of Wilson’s company, Fist and Heel Performance Group. With cinematographer Aitor Mendilibar, Wilson considered…