Dance
Dancing and dance-making based in improvisation to sculpt space with self; to access and alienate conventions; to create a density of present-tense and historical sensation.
UPCOMING
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Tara Aisha Willis & Damon Locks
The Poetry Project, April 12, 2024 (also livestreamed)
The dancer and writer Tara Aisha Willis and the visual and sound artist Damon Locks are making and being together. They are working across sound, movement, and text; meeting at their edges and experimenting in their overlaps. For this evening, Willis and Locks bring a new duo work called Step Step Step to The Poetry Project.
Sandra Binion, Autobiography of Looking
Various reperformances of Binion’s work, April-June 2024, during a retrospective exhibition held by Experimental Sound Studio and across various Chicago sites.
ADDITIONAL WORKS
"Step step step: improvisation, sound, and movement"
Guest lecture and performance, Improvise and Intervene Interseminars, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Step, Step, Step
Duet with Damon Locks, curated by Ethan Philbrick at C'Mon Everybody, Brooklyn, 2023
Freedom From & Freedom To
Elastic Arts
Up from under, Set Free Residency, Links Hall, 2018
Choreography by Tara Aisha Willis, Sound by Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste
'Set Free' at Links Hall: What if a dance had time to breathe and change?
Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune
What Remains, (Produced by Bard College/Fisher Center, toured to Danspace Project, Walker Art Center, MCA Chicago, REDCAT, Yale Repertory Theater, and ICA Boston)
Dancer, Choreographed by Will Rawls and poet Claudia Rankine, 2017–2021
Review: The Body, Vibrating, Is ‘What Remains’
Gia Kourlas, The New York Times
Claudia Rankine and Will Rawls: Surveillance and the Black Experience
Siobhan Burke, The New York Times
Our Critics Pick the Dance Moves (and Objects) to See This Fall
Siobhan Burke, The New York Times
PRIZE, The Joyce Theater Unleashed at New York Lives Arts, 2016
Dancer, Choreographed by Anna Sperber
MOVEMENT REALIZED Anna Sperber’s Prize
Lori DeGolyer, The Brooklyn Rail
Review: ‘Prize’ Puts Dance and Drumming in the Spotlight
Brian Seibert, The New York Times
Mediums, Danspace ProjectFood for Thought
Dancer, Choreographed by Megan Byrne for Danspace Project, 2014
Bertha, 2016–2017 (performed at Movement Research at Judson Church, DraftWorks at Danspace Project, and The Current Sessions at The Wild Project)
Choreographer, Sound by Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Performed with Anna Adams Stark and Jasmine Hearn
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT 06: TARA AISHA WILLIS
The Current Sessions
Far from its original color, How I Became a Painter, The Painting Center, 2013
Choreographer, Curated by Millie Kapp
Photo Credits: Dance hero image, Freedom From... Freedom To..., Elastic Arts, Photo by Ricardo Adame.