{"id":585,"date":"2017-11-29T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullrenovations.com\/?p=585"},"modified":"2025-04-08T15:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:26:22","slug":"dancing-the-resistance-3-shows-tackling-blacklivesmatter-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fullrenovations.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/29\/dancing-the-resistance-3-shows-tackling-blacklivesmatter-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing the Resistance: 3 Shows Tackling #BlackLivesMatter and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIf The Nutcracker<\/em> just isn’t doing it for you this season, stay #woke with these three shows.\n<\/p>\n

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Camille A. Brown Delivers a Double Whammy<\/h3>\n

\n\t\tWASHINGTON, DC<\/strong>
\n\t\t Camille A. Brown isn’t known for pulling punches. As part of her Kennedy Center debut, she’ll premiere ink<\/em>, an examination of African-American rituals and gestural language co-commissioned by The Kennedy Center. It’s the third and final work in her trilogy examining race and identity. ink<\/em>‘s Dec. 2 premiere will be preceded by her acclaimed second installment, BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play<\/em>, on Dec. 1. (The first, Mr. Tol E. RAncE<\/em>, won a 2014 Bessie Award for Outstanding Production.) ink<\/em> promises to be a powerful reclamation of black history and culture, one that can power a better future. kennedy-center.org<\/a>.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A Dance Festival for First Nations Issues<\/h3>\n

\tDancing Earth director Rulan Tangen. Photo by Elizbeth Opalenik, Courtesy Dancing Earth.<\/small><\/p>\n

\n\tSAN FRANCISCO<\/strong>
\n\t Dancing Earth Creations and Cuicacalli Dance Company have teamed up to create the 500 Years of Resistance Festival. The two-day event spotlights contemporary indigenous choreography, addressing issues faced by First Nations peoples in California ranging from the ecological to the sociopolitical. Dec. 1–2. dancingearth.org<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Helanius J. Wilkins is Singled Out<\/h3>\n

\tHelanius J. Wilkins. Photo by Charles H. Black, Courtesy Wilkins.<\/small><\/p>\n

\n\tWASHINGTON, DC<\/strong>
\n\t Dancer\/choreographer Helanius J. Wilkins, known for his deeply personal solos, brings Triggered, a program of new and old solo and group works, to his former home. Now a professor at University of Colorado Boulder, he is joined by dancers from Boulder and special guests. A trio titled Media’s Got Me All Figured Out: Reloaded<\/em> is inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and the issues it confronts. Dec. 3, Millennium Stage, The Kennedy Center. kennedy-center.org<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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