Dear Community,
After last season's major undertaking of celebrating Dancing While Black's 5th Anniversay AND orchestrating a large-scale performance piece on the Bronx River, this season we are taking a break from producing. Instead, we are channeling efforts into establishing more mechanisms for sustainable practice. This includes spending more time immersed in ARTISTIC practice. After all,
Angela's Pulse is an artist-led organization!
The Angela's Pulse team is group of values-aligned artists. We develop our artistic voices and sharpen our skills both within Angela's Pulse and in collaboration with other folks. This past month, Paloma taught a four-week workshop in Pratt Institute's graduate performance studies program and was a guest lecturer in Princeton University's dance program. "Talking about my vision and sharing my creative processes is a way for me to learn - about the impact of my work, about the folks in the room and about what might be next," Paloma said. "It's an exchange."
Stay tuned for more details about new creative collaborations and how our artistic ventures strengthen Angela's Pulse.
Love and light,
The Angela's Pulse Team
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THIS MONTH'S ACTION for COLLECTIVE LIBERATION:
Immerse Yourself in Artistic Practice as a Witness
It can be invigorating to experience someone else's creative work. There are multiple opportunities this month to do so! See below:
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Skeleton Architecture at Danspace Project
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Workshop #1
December 6 | 6-9 pm
Open to Black identified folks ONLY, Skeleton Architecture will share practices that support collecting and centering in solidarity.
More Info HERE
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Workshop #2
December 7 | 6-8 pm
Open to all, this workshop offers a space to share Skeleton Architecture’s practices around improvisation, dance, and community.
More Info HERE
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An Evening of Performance
December 8 | 7 pm
On this special evening, Skeleton Architecture will share a performance that emphasizes the collaborative process and highlights the power of Black womyn within community. This sharing imagines and activates a site of InterSections – a crossroads, a place of high-stakes, risks and magic — through improvisation, dance, song, text, and spirit. Open to all.
$10 / $5 for members | More Info HERE
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92 Y Fridays at Noon
Performing Justice: Dancing While Black
December 7 | 12 pm
Choreographers Jaimé Yawa Dzandu ('16-'17 DWB Fellow) and Maria Bauman perform and discuss issues concerning equality and leadership in dance with Eva Yaa Asantewaa (InfiniteBody) and Paloma McGregor.
$15 in advance / $25, 2-hours prior to performance
More Info HERE
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Paloma McGregor performing at
Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church
December 10 | 8 pm
Paloma joins '17-'18 DWB Fellow Jasmine Hearn, Nile Harris and Maya Lee-Parritz in performance.
Free, no reservation required
More Info HERE
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"With the river as a collaborator, we can hold these resources as sacred. We can reestablish an embodied connection to the water and practice being in living conversation with these forces. Reclamation is an activated call, an imperative."
-Paloma McGregor on developing Building a Better Fishtrap on the Bronx River, Interview in BOMB Magazine, June 2018
Photo: Erica Saucedo, Christine King and Bethania at Starlight Park, June 2018 by Erik Carter
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WHO IS DANCING WHILE BLACK?
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'17-'18 DWB Fellow Kayla Hamilton presents Nearly Sighted/unearthing the dark
in DoublePlus curated by Alice Sheppard @ Gibney
Nov. 29 - Dec. 1 | 8pm
[more info]
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'17 - '18 DWB Fellow J. Bouey shares The Space Between Words with Stanley Gambucci!
@ New York Live Arts
Dec. 7 - 8 | 7:30pm | [more info]
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DWB Partner, BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance presents LOS NUTCRACKERS: A CHRISTMAS CARAJO
@ BAAD!
Dec. 1, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15 | 8pm
[more info]
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