Category: Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group
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PREVIEW: Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group Harness the ‘POWER’ of Black Shakers | Charleston City Paper
‘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,…
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Spoleto Question-and-Artist: Brooklyn Choreographer Reggie Wilson and Black Shakers | The Post and Courier
‘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,…
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The Brooklyn Rail | How to Commune Reggie Wilson Reimagines a Black Shaker History in Power at Bam.
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.…
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New York Times | Reggie Wilson Explores the Power of Moving Together
” 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.
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Dance Magazine / Friday Film Break: Reggie Wilson’s “Come and Go ‘Piece a ‘Way”
‘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…
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Dance Review: ‘Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group — Powerful Gifts’
‘I was swept away by the force of the rhythms and the fervent dancing.’ Read the full review here.
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Oregon Artswatch Review: ‘Reggie Wilson’s Got the Power’
‘Perhaps the most striking quality to the movement in POWER was its realism. While the dancers in Fist and Heel clearly have all the skills one would expect of a professional troupe of their caliber, their choreography seemed to intentionally forgo polish in the service of presence. For lack of better words, they just seemed…
