Tag: Shamel Pitts | TRIBE
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thINKing DANCE | The Magical Realism in TRIBE’s Black Hole
‘Black Hole is a work of magical realism. Where was this land? Where did they come from? What path were they on? Was this source an entity of goodness or harm? This piece was riddled with questions, but the good kind you feel being answered viscerally in front of you while allowing yourself not to…
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Fjord | Beauty in Blackness Shamel Pitts’ Final Installment of “Black Trilogy”
‘ “Black Hole” draws upon universal images and activities of deep memory and refracts them through a lens of awe-evoking technology to create a generative space—a place where the past, present, and future of what it is to be black is utterly reimagined.’ – Karen Greenspan Read the full article here.
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The New York Times | Review: An Afrofuturist Trip to the Lunarverse
‘The whole hourlong work, the final installment in a trilogy with ‘Black Box’ and ‘Black Velvet’, is curiously stylish and sincere, glossily cold and tender. Always visually striking, it’s never dull. But it transpires at a distance.’ – New York Times Read the full article here.
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The Dance Enthusiast | TRIBE | Shamel Pitts Presents “BLACK HOLE – Trilogy and Triathlon”
“BLACK HOLE – Trilogy and Triathlon is a multidisciplinary performance choreographed by the award-winning movement artist Shamel Pitts, co-created and performed by his Brooklyn-based arts collective TRIBE.” Read the full article here.
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BOMB / Sharing the Weight: Deville Cohen and Shamel Pitts
Visual artist Deville Cohen and choreographer Shamel Pitts have both engaged the idea of the “company” or “collective” as models for collaboration that dismantle hierarchy within the creative process. Cohen is the founder and artistic director of Hand to Mouth, a personal project and intimately bound dance company made up of “sentient and inanimate collaborators.”…