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How People Move People
By Cara Hagan, Jose Solís, Tara Aisha Willis, Brinda GuhaSociety & CultureDocumentaryArtsHistoryPerforming Arts
How People Move People episodes
- Mid-Ground: Episode 2, Katherine Reynolds and Gabrielle Civil
In this episode of Mid-Ground, Tara Aisha Willis hosts a conversation featuring Gabrielle Civil (Los Angeles, CA), a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer originally from Detroit, MI, and Katherine Simóne Reynolds (Mexico / Belleville, IL), whose practice investigates emotional dialects and psychogeographies within the Black midwestern landscape.
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In this episode, host Tara Aisha Willis, Ph.D. (Chicago, IL) introduces Series Three, "Mid-Ground," which brings pairs of dance and performance artists together in kinship around their roots and work in the Black Midwest. Interviews for "Mid-Ground" feature dance artists, writers, dramaturgs, and cultural activists Ajara Alghali, Gabrielle Civil, Melanie George, Jennifer Harge, Meida McNeal, Bebe Miller, Katherine Simóne Reynolds, and Reggie Wilson.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
https://www.theblackmidwest.com/anthology-1
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/160116/alexis-pauline-gumbs-vs-chasing-aweJoin our mailing list - nccakron.org/engage
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In this episode of Trace Elements, we spend time with Juan Michael Porter II in conversation with host, Jose Solís. Porter, talks about his work as a dancer, educator, and activist, living with HIV.
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En este capítulo de Trace Elements, compartimos con Doña Nandayure Harley, co-fundadora del Ballet Moderno de Cámara en Costa Rica. Harley habla con Jose Solís sobre los colegas que perdió durante el comienzo de la epidemia del VIH/SIDA y recuerda con cariño a su maestro Tim Wengerd, quien falleció en 1989.
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In this episode of Trace Elements, we spend time with Rosalynde LeBlanc in conversation with host, Jose Solís. LeBlanc, a former member of the Bill T Jones Company, talks about her film, "Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters," her time in the company, and coming into adulthood as a dancer in New York at the height of the AIDS crisis.
https://www.facebook.com/DManMovie/
'Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters' can be streamed for free as part of 'AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange' on the Black Public Media YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeroIYl1kvM&t=10s
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En este capítulo de Trace Elements, Aimar Perez Gali, bailarín, coreógrafo, investigador y profesor de Barcelona, conversa con Jose Solís sobre su proyecto Lo tocante y las hermosas historias que ha descubierto en todo el mundo sobre bailarines y coreógrafos que fallecieron por complicaciones de SIDA.
www.aimarperezgali.com
https://ca2m.org/en/activities/touching-blues-by-aimar-perez-gali
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En este capítulo de Trace Elements, Jose Zambrano, un activista hondureño que lleva más de 40 años luchando para mejorar la calidad de vida de personas viviendo con VIH, conversa con nuestro anfitrión Jose Solís. Zambrano nos comparte historias de su vida trabajando con las mujeres trans que con sus bailes llenaban de vida la zona roja de Tegucigalpa.
https://criterio.hn/cuarenta-anos-de-activismo-lgbti-y-vih-sida-han-sido-reconocidos/
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In this episode of Trace Elements, we spend time with Phil Chan (founder of Final Bow For Yellow Face) and Graham Lustig (Artistic Director, Oakland Ballet), each in conversation with host, Jose Solís about ballet choreographer Choo San Goh (Goh Choo San), who died of AIDS in 1987. Choo San was a rising star, having created ballets for some of the world's leading companies. He is but one example of the art and creativity taken from the world by this epidemic.
Final Bow For YellowFace
Gold Standard Arts Foundation
Oakland Ballet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goh_Choo_San
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In this episode of Trace Elements, we spend time with Jack Ferver in conversation with host, Jose Solís. Ferver shares stories of how the HIV/AIDS epidemic has influenced their work as both a performer, creator, researcher, and professor. Topics range from the impact of HIV/AIDS on NEA funding, the transference of arts knowledge, and on queer artists broadly.
Film referenced in the episode - "Nowhere Apparent" commissioned as part of ALL ARTS annual dance film festival, “Past, Present, Future” and available to watch on demand at AllArts.org/PastPresentFuture.
Information on the Culture Wars:
https://blogs.brown.edu/hiaa-1810-s01-fall-2017/files/2017/08/Katz.pdf
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-01-08-op-17769-story.html
https://www.philipyenawine.com/art-social-issues/2020/9/4/art-matters-how-the-culture-wars-changed-america
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In this episode of Back and Forth, host, Cara Hagan shares two conversations. One with Dr. Lisa Covington, a sociology and digital humanities scholar whose research explores media representations of Black youth. And the second, with two young girls, Inez, who is eight and Mari, who is ten, to chat about their thoughts and experiences with on the pop culture and media.
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About How People Move People
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How People Move People is a four-part series that unfolds in multi-episode arcs, focused on the work and passions of the host. Listeners discover how the lives and stories of others impact artistic journeys – the choreography of cultural influence.
Series Four: "As Grandmother Says..." (released August 2024) is hosted by Brinda Guha and asks artists of different generations and contexts who work in similar fields to be in conversation with each other and reflect on their own mentor/mentee relationships within their creative processes.
Series Three: "Mid-Ground" (released July 2024) is hosted by Tara Aisha Willis, PhD and brings pairs of dance and performance artists together in kinship around their roots and work in the Black Midwest.
Series Two: "Trace Elements" (released June 2023) is hosted by Jose Solís and gathers stories of men and trans women artists who were impacted by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. We honor these stories in their first languages, offering half of this series in English and half in Spanish. To learn more about Jose, meet his guests, and access other program materials and resources, read the liner notes at nccakron.org/traceelements.
Series One: "Back and Forth" (released February 2023) is hosted by Cara Hagan and focuses on the influences of pop culture on the kinetic lives of black girls. To learn more about Cara, meet her guests, and access other program materials and resources, read the liner notes at nccakron.org/backandforth.
How People Move People, is brought to you by The National Center of Choreography - Akron, or NCCAkron. This podcast is produced by Jennifer Edwards, with engineering by James Sleeman, theme music by Ellis Rovin, sound design by Damon Locks, transcription by Arushi Singh, and cover art by Micah Kraus. Spanish language episodes are produced by Silvana Cardell. Special thanks to The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for their continued support of NCCAkron programming like this. To learn more about NCCAkron, please visit us online at nccakron.org.