Tag: REGGIE WILSON/FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP
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Post-Show Talk: Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group | Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2019
Reggie Wilson talks about his new work ‘POWER’ which premiered at Jacob’s Pillow July 10-14, 2019.
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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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Whyy/Reggie Wilson: ‘Experimental Dance Performance Mixes ’High Art’ With Historic Philly Churches’
Read and/or listen to the interview here.
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