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Artistic Direction and Concept: Davalois Fearon
Choreography: Davalois Fearon Music: Mike McGinnis Projections: Andre Zachery Lighting Design: Sarah Hamilton |
Dancers: Davalois Fearon
Milwaukee Premiere Date: December 13, 2016, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee NYC Premiere: March 27-29, 2018, Mabou Mines Running Time: 40 minutes with a 20 minute talk back |
Time to Talk takes a multidisciplinary approach to structure this series and utilizes both art and informed discourse to educate audiences on the many racial disparities that take place socially, environmentally, and academically. It is created in response to the institutional racism Fearon experienced as a graduate student in 2015. Dynamic fluid dance, live music, poetry, and visual art are used as tools to bring attention to inequalities within the dance field and society at large. Time to Talk aims to encourage audience members to question how they may knowingly or unknowingly contribute to maintaining social norms that support a status quo of inequity.
The Time To Talk Initiative, developed in conjunction with this work, provides the community with resources and ways to take immediate and long-term action. The newest phase of the initiative, Time to Talk with Davalois Fearon, consists of a series of live dialogues between Fearon and Black Dance Artists, including Charmaine Warren and Mikaila Ware.
Choreographer Davalois Fearon brings high energy and tenacious virtuosity to all her work. Her upcoming Time to Talk unpacks Fearon's research around systemic racism, racial identity, American history and dance history.
- Melanie Greene, Dance Magazine, 7 Up-and-Coming Black Dance Artists Who Should Be on Your Radar
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"'Time to Talk' is a new work that addresses both current and historical issues that remain important to discuss and dismantle. It's time we all join the conversation."
- Charles Rice-Gonzalez, BAAD! Executive Director
"THIS IS HUGE - The 'Time to Talk' experience came into my life at exactly the right time. This captivating and emotional piece allows the channeling of energy into action and awareness. Raising our consciousness and competency to treat each other with equality, respect, and compassion...transformed my life."
- Jennifer Jordon, NAACP Youth Advisor
"[Fearon is] a woman who excels at whatever she sets her mind to doing. Her supple, sculptural, forceful body is equipped to ace every form of movement--from ballet barre to twerking--even when built-in, exaggerated imperfections show she's unhappy and unfulfilled by the expectations that others put on her."
- Eva Yaa Asantewaa, InfiniteBody, Davalois Fearon and the Politics of Race
"Fearon describes “fighting to be seen,” telling the audience that one of her biggest heartbreaks was not not seeing herself in her graduate school’s curriculum. She was surprised that of approximately ninety artists on her list to study, only five were African-American."
- Christine Jowers, The Dance Enthusiast, ARTISTS ACTIVATED: Finding Her History — Davalois Fearon at Lincoln Center’s New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. A Conversation With Linda Murray, Dance Curator
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