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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

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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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09 Mar: Dance Black Joy: Global Affirmations and Defiance
In February, A. Nia Austin-Edwards, a longtime Angela's Pulse collaborator, attended Dance Black Joy: Global Affirmations and Defiance. The 3-day convening was a dynamic space of dialogue, performance and celebration; she reflected some voices and residue from the experience in poetry.
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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.

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.

Tune into the first @blackdancestories of 2021 with Paloma McGregor and Yusha-Marie Sorzano, ...

Jan 19

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Tune into the first @blackdancestories of 2021 with Paloma McGregor and Yusha-Marie Sorzano, @ymsorzano. This Thursday, January 21 at 6pm. #BlackDanceStories #DancingWhileBlack
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"Dancing while Black requires the work of human beings who believe in the practice of ...

Jan 19

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"Dancing while Black requires the work of human beings who believe in the practice of freedom." ​ ​May this day remind you that you are free. Our ancestors fought for that right. Feel free to move, to smile, to glow, to scream, to be who you are. As you are. ​ ​##DancingWhileBlack ​#HappyMLKDay
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Check out this opportunity to learn skills and frolic in nature. Spend 4 days and 3 nights on the ...

Jan 18

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Check out this opportunity to learn skills and frolic in nature. Spend 4 days and 3 nights on the Long Trail in Mount Tabor, VT and learn the basics of backpacking, fire building, knot tying, and navigation, through a forest bathing lens while reclaiming your ancestral relationship to land and place. Rusty Anvil is offering scholarships for both of these events up to $100 and NO ONE will be turned away for a lack of funds. So please do not hesitate to reach out if funds are a potential barrier for you. All funds are put towards facilitation, providing local fresh food for participants, and for campsite reservations. ​ ​When: May 20-23, 2021 and June 17-20, 2021 ​ ​For questions contact Raei@the-rusty-anvil.land ​ ​#ForestBathing #Immersion #Reclamation
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"For me, dancing while black is like driving while Black. I am who I am. Driving gets me where ...

Jan 17

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"For me, dancing while black is like driving while Black. I am who I am. Driving gets me where I'm going, just as dance has done. And, I know people have opinions about the kind of "car" I drive, how I drive it, and whether or not I should be driving it.  ​ ​Sounds a lot like dance to me." ​-James A. Frazier ​ ​#DancingWhileBlack ​
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@blackdancestories is back! Save the date for January 21, 2021, when BDS will feature Paloma ...

Jan 15

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@blackdancestories is back! Save the date for January 21, 2021, when BDS will feature Paloma McGregor and Yusha-Marie Sorzano. Don't worry. We'll remind you too😀! Thank you @blackdancestories #BlackDanceStories #DancingWhileBlack
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We are thankful for you! Happy New year to you all!
​#DancingWhileBlack #HappyNewYear

Jan 5

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We are thankful for you! Happy New year to you all! ​#DancingWhileBlack #HappyNewYear
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May this New Year bring you into yourself
Away from the shadows of fear
Away from the shadow...

Dec 31

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May this New Year bring you into yourself Away from the shadows of fear Away from the shadow of insecurity Deeper into acknowledging your greatness You are your ancestors dreams come into fruition You are flow and beat Love and glory Fortitude and Gratitude! You are enough!!! Happy New Days Ahead from the Angelas Pulse family! Love and Light to you all❤💛💚💜 TBT to Paloma McGregor sharing a movement excerpt from Building a Better Fishtrap/Phase 2 at @baxarts May 2016 Photo by @WhitneyBrownePhotography #liveartery #livefeed #BuildingaBetterFishtrap #Fishtrap
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May we all strive
to understand
what it means to be YOU
Authentically you
With ...

Dec 28

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May we all strive to understand what it means to be YOU Authentically you With love With respect! #happyholidays #DancingWhileBlack #LoveAndPeace #AngelasPulse
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