‘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, and would often purchase the freedom of slaves in southern communities. Wilson’s work will have its premiere at Jacob’s Pillow July 10-14, but the Round Stone Barn at the Village will be the scene of a site-specific performance July 6′
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