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An artist-­led initiative that supports the diverse work of Black dance artists by cultivating platforms for process, performance, dialogue and documentation 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 View the Inaugural
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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Angela's Pulse Collaborator Ebony Golden and '15-'16 DWB Fellow Sydnie Mosely at DWB Story Circles captured by Whitney Brown
07 Dec 2017: Get a Glimpse of our Freedom Stories
Last month, we gathered at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics to kick off our Fifth Anniversary Season with Story Circles on Organizing Toward Vision in an Age of Resistance. We were led by DWB founder Paloma McGregor and the incredible Wendi Moore-O'Neal, daughter of John O'Neal, the originator of the Story Circle process we have used at several gatherings.
photo by Peter Born
31 May 2017: Reflections from the 2016-17 Dancing While Black Fellows
The Dancing While Black 2016-17 Fellowship brought together seven emerging Black Women choreographers who spent seven months building community through workshops with master teachers, communal dinners and a public discussion at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Get to know the Fellows and their visions for this collaborative journey.
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Projects

Building a Better Fishtrap
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

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

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.

Blood Dazzler
Blood Dazzler

BLOOD DAZZLER is a tale of the storm we should have seen coming and the sociopolitical firestorm left in its wake.

Thank you🙌🏽🙌🏾🙌🏿 @bornbrownallrightsreserved for featuring #PalomaMcGregor and ...

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Thank you🙌🏽🙌🏾🙌🏿 @bornbrownallrightsreserved for featuring #PalomaMcGregor and @angelaspulse. It's an honor to be community with such brilliant creatives. Repost from @bornbrownallrightsreserved . . . Paloma McGregor is a community development maven. Her artistic path is dedicated to the amplification of Black voices through performance projects that recover the quotidian choreographies of our Black ancestors in public spaces. She is a intentional artistic director who has expanded capacity to convene audiences, creatives partners and curators during the pandemic. You can learn more about Paloma by visiting: http://angelaspulse.org/ #BlackWomenSeason #Dance #BornBrown #StoryTelling #culture #Community #Angelaspulse
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"Dancing While Black is to imagine a new human relations free from persisting hierarchies ...

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"Dancing While Black is to imagine a new human relations free from persisting hierarchies (racial, sexual or geo-political)" ​ ​#DancingWhileBlackIs ​#HappyWomensHistoryMonth
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Please share and support! From our community at @culturalsolidarityfund
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Please share and support! From our community at @culturalsolidarityfund . . . In the spirit of coalition and resource sharing, the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute in collaboration with NYC arts and cultural organizations of all sizes and structures have come together to build and support the CULTURAL SOLIDARITY FUND. If you are an individual artist or cultural worker in need of relief, please apply. The very simple application will be open from February 26th at 9AM to March 5th at 9PM. The CSF will open with $100,000, initially distributing 200 $500 relief micro-grants to NYC artists and cultural workers. BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color), immigrant, undocumented, and/or disabled/deaf applicants will be prioritized.  #ReliefFund #culturalsolidarityfund #DWBcommunity
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Dancing While Black Is... "A Revolution Worth Televising"
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Dancing While Black Is... "A Revolution Worth Televising" ​-DWB Community Member ​ ​#DancingWhileBlack #DancingIsARevolutionaryAct
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Check out Black Spatial Relics: 2021 Convening
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​About: "Now as much as ever, ...

Feb 22

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Check out Black Spatial Relics: 2021 Convening ​ ​About: "Now as much as ever, radical gathering spaces for rumination on Black embodied freedoms are crucial. From February 23 - 27, 2021, Black Spatial Relics (BSR) is hosting its second annual convening. Building on our work to create Black spaces for creation, exploration, and community, this will be a free and virtual convening that will feature our 2020 artists-in-residence and several other Black performance makers and scholars from around Philadelphia and beyond. Join us for an opening keynote by Ebony Noelle Golden." ​ ​When: February 23-27 ​ ​Click link below for more information ​ ​https://tinyurl.com/15wuq7zk ​ ​#BlackLivesMatter ​#BlackArt ​#BlackHistory
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Dancing While Black Is... "A movement that NEVER ends!" #KeepDancing
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Dancing While Black Is... "A movement that NEVER ends!" #KeepDancing ​ ​#DancingWhileBlack ​#DancingWhileBlackCommunity
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Dancing While Black is "Allowing my body to bring my mind where it would like to be" ...

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Dancing While Black is "Allowing my body to bring my mind where it would like to be" -Dancing While Black Community Member ​ ​ ​ ​
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