Tag: REGGIE WILSON/FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP

‘Solid solos by Yeman Brown, Kelly, Clement Mensah and Anna Schon sometimes overlap in passing, and each time they appear they alter the space.’ Please click here to read the full review.

“The performers are putting their personal, familiar and ethnic selves in relationship to the material,” said Wilson, whose Fist and Heel Performance Ensemble performs in Capitol Theater on Tuesday. “Whether people are conscious about it or not, that’s what the audience is also doing. “Individual audience members bring their own baggage. That baggage is made…

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‘Wilson is a deep thinker. He’s asking you to observe, feel and think for yourself. Citizen is about many things and, while race is certainly central, there is also the question of what it means to belong, not to belong and to not even want to belong. There is a deep sense of alienation implied…

‘[…] everything else we do see appears to atomize Wilson’s research and musings. They spread out and form a texturous fabric of clear, repeated gestures and movement patterns sometimes assigned to specific performers and ultimately, beautifully, taken up by all.’ Read the full review here.

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‘For “Citizen,” Mr. Wilson developed a repertory of movements for the five dancers, each of whom has a solo. “I think of myself as completing tasks,” Mr. Kelly explained. The dancers’ actions are straightforward: a quick sequence of claps, a hand circling the opposite elbow, a giant leg circle that ends in a lunge to…