Tag: REGGIE WILSON/FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP

This is the review that Zora Neale Hurston’s nephew, Edwards Hurston, posted on Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group’s page after seeing ‘Moses(es)’ at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven last year: ‘Hello all, My review of Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group in Moses(es). On the first day of summer…

‘The second work, Brooklyn-based Reggie Wilson’s “I Am A Man,” is an extraordinary piece, rooted in civil rights, religion and the choreographer’s Delta heritage. Knowing those inspirations gives some context to what you see, but it can no more describe the grace, power and emotion of the movement than a title to a book or…

‘What is post-African/Neo-HooDoo Modern dance? […] It means that it’s several words strung together, and you probably have to experience it to understand what that means. It’s dance – best to be experienced and not read. That’s the basic concept behind it, but actually and literally each one of those words are ideas that do relate to…

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Saturday, January 10 and Sunday, January 11 at 7pm, 8.30pm and 10pm at Ailey (405 W 55th St, NYC) – Studio #1C Reggie Wilson continues to tour his critically acclaimed ‘Moses(es)’, set to live Diasporic-influenced music. This work is filtered through the multiple iterations of Moses represented in religious texts and mythical, canonical and ethnographic…

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