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“Infectiously joyous… the sacred and the secular inform each other, and dance and music become a single art based on pulse and breath.” —Village Voice
The Good Dance, a collaboration between Reggie Wilson’s Brooklyn-based Fist & Heel Performance Group and Andréya Ouamba’s Senegal-based Compagnie 1er Temps, combines the rhythms of African, Caribbean, and African-American dance to create a new theatrical world. Based on metaphorical and real-world parallels between cultures on the Mississippi and Congo Rivers, the piece is the result of Wilson’s research into secular and religious life in African-American communities of the Delta and Cameroon, Gabon, and Congo. Accompanied by their own driving rhythms—body percussion, aspirated breath, singing, and shouts—the dancers blend deep ritual into potent, beautiful, and energizing contemporary dance.
NEW YORK TIMES DANCE REVIEW, 12/17/09: "Joined Hands and Feet, Like Friends Talking"
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Presented in association with the Office of the Associate Provost for Multicultural Affairs
through the UVM President’s Initiative for Diversity
Funded in part by the
National Endowment for the Arts; and by the
Flynn General Endowment. The General Endowment received challenge grants from the Ford Foundation New Directions/New Donors program and the Argosy Foundation which were matched by generous support from the community. Funded in part by the
National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional funding provided by the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation.
The Flynn acknowledges critical
National Endowment for the Arts Recovery Act artist residency and staff support.
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