Four short dance works in process. One persistent experiment in discussion, together. Because relational, because dance, because dance wants to be in conversations of dance, because dance is what wants.
Tiger Balm #9
Wednesday, April 8 at 7:00pm
Organized and curated by Kenna Cottman, Val Oliveiro, and Pramila Vasudevan. Discussion facilitated by Kenna Cottman.
Halie Bahr (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist and performance studies scholar whose work spans visceral, candy-colored spectacle and rigorous inquiry into trauma in the creative process. She has presented nationally at the Walker Art Center, Movement Research at Judson Church, Milwaukee Art Museum, and Links Hall, among others. She is a Professor of Dance at Hamline University and Associate Director of loveDANCEmore.
Suzette Jornae Gilreath is a Twin Cities-based dance artist trained in classical ballet, contemporary, modern, African, and street styles. Her work moves through an intersectional lens, cultivating composition that centers connection, identity, and shared source. She has performed works by Kenna Cottman, Sidra Bell, Gregory Maqoma, and Robert Moses, among others.
Aleeza Mandel / Phoenix is a Minneapolis-based Krump artist, painter, poet, singer, and sewer who is Jewish and Indigenous from White Earth Nation. Her work centers Indigenous and Jewish representation across every art form she inhabits, bringing her whole self without leaving pieces behind.
Asha Rowland is a Minneapolis and Chicago-based dancer, choreographer, and storyteller whose practice interrogates anti-Blackness, environmental racism, and classist structures through an African and South Asian diasporic lens. Her movement methodology draws from 20+ years of practice in Bharatanatyam, Raq Sharqi, and Black American street dance.