Building Vital and Enduring Connections
Angela's Pulse nurtures innovation, collaboration, and community-building through our performance platforms, facilitation consultancy, and leadership development programs.
We center Black stories, spaces, and people as a liberatory practice for all those we engage with -- across generation, geography, race, and culture. We are an incubator, a womb space for visions to grow. We value circularity, iteration, and emergence in all we do, as resistance to the linearity of racist-capitalist patriarchy.
Our embodied methodologies for collaboration -- including reading, writing, story-telling, drawing and dancing -- create vital and enduring connections between people, places and visions.
CORE VALUES
We believe in dialog and experimentation as both means and end. We center the authentic over the predetermined. We allow for trust and growth to develop as a result of spending time, challenging assumptions and inherited notions, digging in and working from joy.
WE ARE:
COMMUNITY
Angela's Pulse has spent more than a decade nurturing communities through short-term engagements and longer-term partnerships. We convene and facilitate interdisciplinary communities across generations and geography, in order to develop rich, relevant artistic work. Our embodied methodologies for collaboration -- including reading, writing, story-telling, drawing, and dancing -- create vital and enduring connections between people, places, and visions.
Pittsfield Moves! At INSIDE/OUT as part of the 2018 Jacob’s Pillow Festival Image by Noor Eemaan Jaffery; courtesy of Jacob's Pillow
Image by Charles R. Berenguer Jr.
Pittsfield Moves! At INSIDE/OUT as part of the 2018 Jacob’s Pillow Festival Image by Noor Eemaan Jaffery; courtesy of Jacob's Pillow
Image credits: Ebony Noelle Golden and Sydnie L. Mosley ('15-'16 DWB Fellow) share a moment of pure joy surrounded by a circle of Dancing While Black community members at Dancing While Black: This Body Knows Freedom - Story Circles on Organizing toward Vision in an Age of Resistance at NYU's Hemispheric Institute in November 2017. Image by Whitney Browne Photography