The US Embassy has invited dancers from Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group to perform in Santo Domingo on occasion of African-American History Month. The dance company will perform on 18 February 2017 at 6pm at the Enriquillo Sánchez auditorium of the Ministry of Culture. And then on Wednesday, 22 at 7pm, the dancers will give a talk on “Afro-Centric Routes in American Dance” at the Centro Cultural León in Santiago.
The famous dance company will also give workshops for contemporary and folklore dancers. The workshops are a collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, National Dance School, Mauricio Báez Cultural Center, Dominican Rehab Center (Rehabilitacion), National School for the Deaf and the Dominican Down Syndrome Association.
Group founder, Reggie Wilson is an award-winning choreographer and performer from New York, who draws from the cultures of Africans in the Americas and combines them with post-modern elements and his own movement style to create what he calls “post-African/Neo-Hoodoo Modern Dances.”
As part of African-American History Month, photographer Camilo José Vergara presents an exhibition on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Tuesday, 21 February 2017 at 7pm at the Centro Cultural Domínico-Americano also in Santiago. A talk on the legacy of Dr. King will be held in Santiago at the same center on Thursday, 23 February at 7pm.
Read more:
http://www.fistandheelperformancegroup.org/
17 February 2017
