GROUNDS THAT SHOUT!… and others merely shaking
Gordon Divine Asaah & Reggie Wilson
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Categories: Dance, Film
Dates: September 15, 2024
Run Time: 120 mins
Venue: FringeArts

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Categories: Dance, Film
Dates: September 15, 2024
Run Time: 120 mins
Venue: FringeArts
Join us for the LIVE screening of GROUNDS THAT SHOUT!… and others merely shaking, a film documentary of the 2019 dance project curated by Reggie Wilson with choreography created by Fist and Heel Performance Group. This project featured eight local choreographers and dance groups at three historic churches in Philadelphia (St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Old Pine Street Church, and Mother Bethel A.M.E. church) and the spaces between them. The Fist and Heel Performance Group presented new work at the Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia during the residency. Directed and produced by Gordon Divine “Dee” Asaah, in conjunction with Wilson, and executive produced by the Center for Experimental Ethnography, GROUNDS THAT SHOUT! takes viewers on a journey into Wilson’s curatorial process, one that explores the cultural encounters between particular artists and particular spaces of worship.
Following the screening will be a live discussion with a panel of lead artists: Reggie Wilson, Deborah Thomas, Tania Isaac, and Karen DiLossi at 6:30PM.
“These dance performances respond to the layered histories of movement, race, and place in Philadelphia’s historic churches,” Reggie Wilson.
Reggie Wilson + Fist & Heel Performance Group
The Company’s name, Fist and Heel, is derived from enslaved Africans in the Americas who reinvented their spiritual traditions as a soulful art form that white and black authorities dismissed as merely ‘fist and heel worshipping'.
Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group is a Brooklyn-based dance company whose mission is to create, research, develop, and present new performance work that investigates the intersections of culture and movement practices. The Company’s body-of-works draw from the spiritual and mundane traditions of Africa and its Diaspora; Fist and Heel believes in the potential of the body as a valid means for knowing.
The choreography of Reggie Wilson displays rigor, structure and craft in a postmodern dance vernacular. His choreography expands the limitations of textbook definitions of ‘black dance’ and range from strict dance pieces to full, all-inclusive performance art pieces with arranged vocalizations, text, and inclusion of other media. Fist and Heel’s performance works strive for authenticity and respect of Reggie Wilson’s creative vision.