DANCING FUTURES 2020/21
ARTIST & MENTOR COLLABORATIVE RESIDENCY
7th Annual
ARTISTS
ALICIA RAQUEL MORALES
KAYLA HAMILTON
ROUROU YE
ALICIA RAQUEL MORALES
Alicia is an Oakland born Boricua tomboi, dancer, organizer, and interdisciplinary performance maker.
Her performance practice is shaped by turf dance, western modern and contemporary dance, tomboi physicality, house dance, martial arts, kitchen and backyard salsa, spoken work and altar building. Raised on fantastical bedtime stories and cultural organizing, Alicia stands on tall shoulders.
She is or has been a proud performer with Arthur Aviles Typical Theater, NWA Project, Renegade Performance Group, MBDance, Brown Girls Burlesque, Roots and River Productions and PISO Proyecto, and has shown her work across the continental U.S. and Puerto Rico. She has taught with Ailey Arts in Education, Sadie Nash Leadership Project and NYU Tisch Collaboratory and is an organizer with ACRE, Artists Co-Creating Real Equity.
Upcoming events
March 6, 2021 - Alicia Bauman-Morales hosts dance artists: Stéphanie Cyr, Jessica McMann, Simran Sachar, Zahra Shahab with showings and post-performance online conversation.
July 23 & 24, 2021 - Culminating Residency Showing @ BAAD!
Rourou Ye (b. 1989, Wenzhou, China; lives in New York, USA) is an independent choreographer who works with movement, shadow puppetry, projection, and ordinary objects to devise performances that defy reality. She utilizes and crafts items from immediate surroundings to create the stage-set, background, and characters of her work. She is best known for creating illusional and transformative cinematic scenarios in live performances where she lives in, and dances through, to reveal urgent narratives that embrace vulnerability and conveys struggle. Rourou uses her work to open up interpersonal conversations because she believes shared vulnerability is the key to bring humanity closer.
Rourou holds an MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College (2017) and a BFA in Choreography from Shanghai Theater Academy (2012). Her work has been presented by The New Museum of Contemporary Art , Movement Research, Center for Performance Research, Danspace Project, Gibney Dance, Bronx Academy of Dance and Art, Pepatian,Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation, Austin Dance Festival, Venice Art Factory( Italy), Elektron Art (Estonia), among others.
Upcoming events
Fri July 16 & Sat July 17 2021 - Culminating Residency Showing @ BAAD!
I, Kayla Hamilton (she/her) is an artist, experience maker and thinker. I would love to connect and build with you. Please contact me to get the conversation started: https://www.circleo.org/
Upcoming events
Fri July 30 & Sat July 31 2021 - Culminating Residency Showing @ BAAD!
Culminating residency showings
July 2021
@ BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
Alicia Bauman Morales
Kayla Hamilton
Rourou Ye
moderated by Fana Fraser
PLUS RESIDENCY ALUMNI IN MOTION
Maleek Washington, Candace Tabbs, Kayla Farrish
Conversation, Tues, April 6th, 2021 @ 7pm-9pm
Dancing Futures Residency Dance Artists & Writers
Writers: Nina A. Mercer and Niya Nicholson
Dance artists: Maleek Washington, Candace Tabbs, and Kayla Farrish.
Hosted by: Nicole L. Martin, Ph.D.
A conversation amongst dance artists and writers of performance who speak about how artists accompany each other. What is the experience of this collaboration in creative processes, and how does it offer new insights into the works?
Gibney Long Table: Conversation with dance artists& writers
Curated by Senior Curatorial Director, Eva Yaa Asantewaa, this series of conversations and experiential gatherings highlights important issues in the dance community.