Tag: REGGIE WILSON/FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP

‘In the narrow space of the balcony under sun-bright lights, the ten formed their circles and returned to the ritualized central pattern, shuffling and hitching, hands on hips. The apt accompanying final song, “Gonna Be a Bright Shiny Day,” mirrored the dance which grew bolder and more energized. The dancers smiled at each other, throwing…

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‘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,…

‘Watch an excerpt from Reggie Wilson’s latest dance, “ … they stood shaking while others began to shout,” inspired by black Shakers — specifically, the religious activist Mother Rebecca Cox Jackson.’ Click here to view the excerpt.

Reggie Wilson’s Platform for Danspace Project considers the importance of houses of worship in the largely secular world of contemporary dance. Read the preview here.

What does this history mean to the choreographer Reggie Wilson? Danspace Project has chosen him to organize a monthlong series of performances and events called “Dancing Platform Praying Grounds: Blackness, Churches, and Downtown Dance.” Mr. Wilson’s own work has investigated spirituality and the culture of the African diaspora, so it’s no surprise that his curatorial…

Reggie Wilson is the guest curator for the Danspace Project’s Platform 2018 (Feb. 28-March 24) titled, “Dancing Platform Praying Grounds: Blackness, Churches and Downtown Dance,” realized “…from Wilson’s ongoing research into religion, race, and, as he explains, ‘the potential of the body as a valid means for knowing.’” For this iteration, Wilson’s research and invitation…

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Dancing Platform Praying Grounds: Blackness, Churches, and Downtown Dance (Platform 2018), curated by Reggie Wilson Click here to learn more about the company’s new work ‘…they stood shaking while others began to shout’