‘If you get a chance to see …they stood shaking while others began to shout–inspired by rhythmic Black Shaker, Yoruba, Black Baptist and Spiritual Baptist worship traditions and a luscious collage of Black music–I think you will appreciate how all of this craft creates a sturdy container for deep, enormous feeling. (That feeling is the neo-hoodoo secret sauce, quietly simmering away underneath it all, unmistakably permitted and, to me, unmistakably Black.) I think you will find space for emerging feelings of your own, and I would imagine–I would hope–that you would not necessarily need to be Black to find and feel them. Certainly, Wilson’s multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-generational dancers and vocalists–Hadar Ahuvia, Rhetta Aleong, Yeman Brown, Paul Hamilton, Lawrence Harding, Raja Feather Kelly, Clement Mensah, Gabriella Silva, Annie Wang and Michelle Yard–suggest this. Each performer brings palpable individuality–a generously-welcomed selfness–to Wilson’s movements, arrangements and scenarios.’
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