Tickets are up to 25% OFF for Members this season! Plus, NYU Skirball Members gain access to exclusive online and in-person events offering behind-the-scenes insights into our artists and our productions.
WORLD PREMIERE
“Wilson sees the deep-running conduits connecting seemingly different cultures through the universal experience of groups of people coming together to dance.” – Oregon ArtsWatch
“The movement impulses and source here are marvelously varied. But the choreographic voice is all Mr. Wilson’s” – The New York Times
ABOUT THE WORK
Choreographer Reggie Wilson is conspicuously reclaiming foundational ideas from his early gestural and “duet-ed” works and landing on provocative questions and surprises fitting to the times we are now experiencing. Wilson’s meticulous and rigorous kinesthetic reclamation process is asking, if not begging us What do you have? What do you keep? How do you make what’s ever left meaningful…ultimately, Is the reclamation of self, necessary to build resilience?
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
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.
An inaugural Doris Duke Artist, Reggie Wilson is a graduate of New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (1988, Larry Rhodes, Chair). He has studied composition and been mentored by Phyllis Lamhut; performed and toured with Ohad Naharin before forming Fist and Heel. He has lectured, taught and conducted extended workshops and community projects throughout the US, Africa, Europe and the Caribbean. fistandheelperformancegroup.org
READ THE DIGITAL PROGRAM
Photo of Fist and Heel Performance Group by © Tony Turner.
SUPPORT
This project is made possible in part with support from the Harkness Foundation for Dance.
NYU Skirball’s programs are made possible in part with support from the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the Howard Gilman Foundation; Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels; The Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater; Collins Building Services; Harkness Foundation for Dance; Villa Albertine; General Delegation of the Government of Flanders to the USA; Québec Government Office in New York; Goethe Institut-New York; Austrian Cultural Forum New York; Marta Heflin Foundation; as well as our valued donors through memberships, commissioning, and Allies for Arts Access Fund support.
The Reclamation is created in part with the support of a 2024-25 CUNY Dance Initiative Residency at Brooklyn College: School of Visual Media and Performing Arts; is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.