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Popular Speaker Series Returns to the Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab
This spring, the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company (MJDC) brings back the popular speaker series “Leaders at the Lab: Conversations with Working Artists” to the Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab in San Francisco. Artistic Director, Margaret Jenkins will host a conversation with national and local leaders in the dance field about the innovative models and career choices they have developed to stay inspired and thrive. Each salon-style discussion will include a question and answer period with the audience and be followed by a reception.
Reggie Wilson founded his company, Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group, in 1989. Wilson draws from the movement languages of the blues, slave and spiritual cultures of Africans in the Americas and combines them with post-modern elements and his own personal movement style to create what he now calls "post-African/Neo-HooDoo Modern dances.” Wilson, a graduate of New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, has lectured, taught and conducted extended workshops and community projects throughout the US, Africa, Europe and the Caribbean. He is a 2002 BESSIE Award recipient and a 2002 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. Most recently, in recognition of his creative contributions to the field, Wilson was named a 2009 United States Artists Prudential Fellow and is the recipient of the 2009 Herb Alpert Award in Dance. His current work, The Good Dance – dakar/brooklyn had its World premiere at the Walker Art Center in (Nov. 2009) and NY premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (Dec. 2009).
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“Dance is always, always, always, always an
expression of culture. The Body and perception
of the body does not exist in a vacuum void of culture.”
REGGIE WILSON
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ALL EVENTS ARE HELD AT
Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab
301 8th Street, (at Folsom) #200,
San Francisco, CA 94103
FOR INFORMATION
call 415.861.3940
e-mail chime@mjdc.org
or visit www.mjdc.org |
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COMING
UP:
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CONVERSATION WITH ALONZO KING
Monday, April 26, 2010 at 7:00 PM
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CONVERSATION WITH SIMONE FORTI
Monday, May 10, 2010 at 7:00 PM
All events are free and will
be
followed by a reception.
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Leaders at the Lab is a project of the
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company • www.mjdc.org
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