Angela's Pulse – Page 2 – 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

Join us as we Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Dancing While Black

An iterative performance project rooted in the vanishing fishing tradition
of choreographer Paloma McGregor’s 97-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 97-year-old father
What do we take with us, leave behind
& return to reclaim?

Building A Better Fishtrap

Upcoming Events

february 2023

11feballday12Dancing While Black: How We Do • Centering the Bodypart of DWB's 10th Anniversary Year(All Day) ET BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance, 2474 Westchester Ave, Bronx, NY 10461Dancing While Black:Dancing While Black

Event Details

February 11 & 12, 2023 in-person and on zoom

Join DWB for shared embodied practices! This weekend of workshops asks how our practices as Black embodied/movement artists shift with the mo(ve)ments that we find ourselves in. Join us.

IN-PERSON WORKSHOPS:

Improvising our Diaspora

Feb. 11 / 11 am – 1 pm
with Marguerite Hemmings & Joya Powell

Two yaadies in the Bronx! Joya and Marguerite make a space for experimentation and play! They will move through various embodied languages of the Diaspora through games and collective makings. Beginning with a journey through many geographies and landing in their ancestral home, Jamaica. Bring ya wata, bring ya body, and bring ya humor!!!!

Move to Transform

Feb. 11 / 1 pm – 3 pm
with Candace Thompson-Zachery & Sydnie L. Mosley

In this movement workshop participants will explore ‘How We Be’ by lifting up the power in the everyday, caretaking as an activation of our interconnectedness, and our ability to transform energy in our lives. Come prepared to lead, be led, and reflect on physical practices as a metaphor for life. Note: Participants should bring a journal and writing utensils, and wear clothes that you can move in. Might get sweaty so an extra shirt might be needed.

Rest Your Eyes & Tell Me A Story

Feb. 11 / 3 pm – 5 pm
with Alethea Pace & Katrina Reid

The cold and dark days of winter provide us an opportunity to reflect and connect with ourselves. Leaning into the energy of the season, Katrina and Alethea offer a series of embodied and storytelling practices to generate warmth, to cultivate deep listening and to restore more balance between activity and rest.

ONLINE WORKSHOP:

All of Us: Coming Together Through Movement

Feb. 12 / 3 pm – 5 pm (virtual workshop)
with India Harville & Kayla Hamilton

Black Disabled Artists India Harville and Kayla Hamilton will guide us through a movement experience that centers disabled bodies and the disabled experience. This class is for BIPOC disabled artists, accomplices, and anyone open to learning. Please bring a note catching device of your choosing. If you are black, come!! If you are disabled come! If you are accomplices come! If you want to be with all.of.us. come!

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Time

february 11 (Saturday) - 12 (Sunday) ET

Location

BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance

2474 Westchester Ave, Bronx, NY 10461

april 2023

20aprallday23Dancing While Black: How We Build • Faculty Women of Color in the Academy National Conferencepart of DWB's 10th Anniversary Year(All Day) ET Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VirginiaDancing While Black:Dancing While Black

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Reflections from the Community

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.

02 Apr 2019: The Space of Us: Reflections on Angela’s Pulse Visioning Retreats

This season we’ve embarked on a series of Angela’s Pulse Visioning Retreats to discuss Engagement and Collaborative Process, Fellowship and Leadership. Joya Powell, 2015 – 2016 Dancing While Black Fellow and Angela’s Pulse Core Collaborator, reflected on these gatherings.

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Projects

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.