Tag: REGGIE WILSON/FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP
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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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Reggie Wilson/NY Times Review: ‘Connecting Dance and Worship With Poetic Imagination’
‘Mr. Wilson explores the intersection of worship and dance with poetic imagination. Within the frame of postmodern dance — and with a heady mix of spirituals, contemporary music and field recordings — he produces a remarkable work that flows seamlessly from start to finish… A diverse, multigenerational cast reclaims a space with a dance. It’s…