Angela's Pulse – Performance Projects

Creating and producing
collaborative performance work and
cultivating collaborative communities
across generation and geography

Creating and producing collaborative performance work and cultivating collaborative communities across generation
and geography

Dancing While Black

An artist-led initiative that supports the diverse work of Black dance artists by cultivating platforms for process, performance, dialogue and documentation

View the Inaugural Dancing While Black Journal

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Dancing While Black Journal

An iterative performance project rooted in the vanishing fishing tradition
of choreographer Paloma McGregor’s 95-year-old father

What do we take with us, leave behind & return to reclaim?

Building A Better Fishtrap

An iterative performance project rooted in the vanishing fishing tradition of choreographer Paloma McGregor’s 95-year-old father
What do we take with us, leave behind
& return to reclaim?

Building A Better Fishtrap

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Reflections from the Community

Rectangular black background with 12 symmetrical squares layered on top, 6 on top of 6. The squares include images of the A'we deh yah collaborators: Paloma McGregor, MK Abadoo, Savannah Lyons Anthony, Oceana James, Christine King, Kemit-Amon Lewis, Monica Marin, Nina Angela Mercer, Erica Patricia Saucedo, and Khnuma Simmonds-Esannason.

24 Jul 2021: A’we deh ya Study Group

Since June, Angela's Pulse has held Study Group convenings with Virgin Island and Stateside collaborators to continue the next iteration of A'we deh ya ("All of us are here").

Angela's Pulse at VCU (students and facilitators smile on screen in a collection of Zoom boxes)

02 Apr 2021: Reflections on Angela’s Pulse in Residence at VCU

VCU Dance Student Joi Brown reflects on Angela's Pulse year-long engagement.

Building a Better Fishtrap / A’we deh ya (“All of us are here”) November Workshop

19 Nov 2020: Building a Better Fishtrap / A’we deh ya (“All of us are here”) at The Movement Lab at Barnard College

This week, Virgin Islanders and Stateside Angela's Pulse collaborators are gathering daily for virtual creative process, research and development of A'we deh ya ("All of us are here"), a multi-disciplinary call-and-response between colony and mainland. This iteration of Building A Better Fishtrap focuses on Paloma's homeland St. Croix.

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Building a Better Fishtrap

Since 2011, Caribbean-born choreographer Paloma McGregor has been developing Building A Better Fishtrap , a performance project rooted in the vanishing fishing tradition of her 93-year-old father. The project examines what happens when you leave your ancestral home: What do you take with you? Leave behind? Return to reclaim?

Dancing While Black

Dancing While Black is an artist-led initiative that supports the diverse work of Black dance artists by cultivating platforms for process, performance, dialogue and documentation.

Follow the Water Walks

FOLLOW THE WATER WALKS is a collaboration between choreographer Paloma McGregor and environmental educator Damian Griffin, in consultation with ecologist Becky Boger. Together, they are developing interdisciplinary methods for engaging communities with their natural and man made landscapes using mapping, science and dance.