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Dancing While Black: Black Bodies | White Boxes

Angela's Pulse Inaugural Digital Journal

This inaugural issue of Dancing While Black’s digital journal was born from collective visioning and laboring, two practices essential for building both a dance and a community. Building community is a creative act. More than three dozen artists and visionaries contributed to this work, which we’ve been dreaming, researching, plotting, and pulling together over the course of the past three years.

- Excerpt of Paloma McGregor's introduction

Experience the Journal at DWBjournal.angelaspulse.org!

Thank you for joining our Journal Launch Celebration!

We were thrilled to Launch the Journal on March 14th at NYU's Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics.

Watch the Live Stream, featuring a discussion with Journal contributors Dr. Brenda Dixon-Gottschild and Maria Bauman-Morales, content editor Thomas F. DeFrantz, and Editor in Chief Paloma McGregor.

Images: DWB Journal cover, including video excerpt from Marguerite Hemmings’ white space is-? project featuring J. Bouey. DWB Journal Launch attendees, photo by Mark Igbinadolor. Paloma McGregor and Tommy DeFranz, still frame from Live Stream of Launch Celebration by Victor Bautista.

UP NEXT

DWB at Barnard College

Monday, April 8

Dancing While Black is excited to share a workshop with Barnard students, faculty and staff, sponsored by The Barnard Dance Department.

In the Body: Dancing Our Equity and Inclusion will be led by DWB facilitators Kayla Hamilton and Jaimé Dzandu.

Photo: DWB Collaborator Nia Love leads a movement workshop with students in Xavier University drawing class taught by DWB Advisor Ron Bechet, February, 2016

VISIONING RETREATS

What nourishes you? What are you dreaming of?

The past, the present, the future simultaneously communing in one space
The space of us
For we are space, that which we hold for each other, ourselves and those we have yet to meet

-Except of Visioning Retreat reflection by Joya Powell

This season we've embarked on a series of

Angela's Pulse Visioning Retreats:

In October of 2018, the Angela's Pulse Team met to reflect on the lessons and successes of the past season (one that was full of producing!), and vision for the future of Angela's Pulse.

In January we gathered a group of Angela's Pulse core collaborators to dive into Engagement and Collaborative Process.

In February a cohort of past Dancing While Black Fellows came together to discuss Angela's Pulse Fellowship and Leadership.

This spring we aim to meet again to continue the conversations, organize new collaborative projects and enjoy each other's company!

Read more of Joya's retreat reflection HERE!

Photo: Reflections on post-it notes, by Paloma McGregor

FROM THE FISHTRAP

River woman, leaning on tree limb,

White flower floating on a rising tide.

Willow tree marks the spot.

Its roots remember children laughing.

And how the lovers danced here,

When the moon hung low in the night sky.

How the music played, traveling

On the water’s current, curving against the land,

Calling the people from their home lives

To see and be seen.

Text by Nina Angela Mercer from Building a Better Fishtrap / from the river's mouth creative process, May 2018

Photo of Audrey Hailes in Building a Better Fishtrap / from the river's mouth by Erik Carter, June 2018

WHO IS DANCING WHILE BLACK?

DWB Journal Contributor Maria Bauman-Morales & MBDance present Desire: A Sankofa Dream
@ BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange
Apr. 7 | 7:30pm | [more info]

'16-'17 DWB Fellow Joya Powell presents Mango Season
@ The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, Northhampton, MA
Apr. 28 | 4:30pm | [more info]

'17-'18 DWB Fellow Jasmine Hearn presents you think you fancy as part of collective terrain/s
@ Danspace Project
May 2-4 | 8:00pm | [more info]

Help us create spaces dedicated to Visioning, Dreaming and Liberating!

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Dancing While Black receives funding from The Surdna Foundation. Building a Better Fishtrap receives funding from MAP Fund. Angela's Pulse is a recipient of Dance/NYC’s Dance Advancement Fund, made possible by the Ford Foundation.