Tag: REGGIE WILSON/FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP

‘Brooklyn-based choreographer Reggie Wilson is brilliant. The Fist and Heel Performance Group dancers who perform and collaborate in his work are brilliant, and the work he creates is wonderfully, difficultly, brilliant.’ Read the full review here.

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‘Dance has often been used as a medium to criticize current society or to ask questions. In today’s world rife with racial tensions and immigration issues, choreographer Reggie Wilson’s latest work, “CITIZEN,” asks the question, “What does it mean to belong?” At a panel discussion April 22 at HistoryMiami Museum, Wilson said identity could mean…

“I believe rigor is highly important it is necessary to do the work and the homework. Look at what the work is actually doing and listen to what the work may be saying, edit, edit, edit again and follow your voice. Repeat. Release it and it will have its own life.” Read the full interview…

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‘This piece was sparked by a portrait at the French palace of Versailles, titled “Citizen Jean-Baptiste Belley.” Belley was a slave from Senegal who purchased his freedom, fought in the Haitian Revolution and was elected to the French National Convention. Where did he belong? His image appears, a presence from the past, in this “CITIZEN.“…

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