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Time to Talk 

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 is a multimedia dance piece rooted in research on American history, dance history, racial identity formation, and systemic racism in American concert dance, academia, and society. 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 audiences to increase their awareness around how they unwittingly support a status quo of inequity​. 
Watch Time to Talk on the DFD Virtual Theater

Time to Talk Trailer from Davalois Fearon Dance on Vimeo.


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​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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Learn About the Time to Talk Initiative Here

Download Time To Talk  Info Page here

See the Time to Talk  Bibliography here.
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​To book "Time to Talk," contact us here.

"'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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    • Consider Water >
      • Consider Water Bibliography
      • Consider Water Initiative
    • Time to Talk >
      • Time to Talk with Dava
      • Time to Talk Bibliography
      • Time to Talk Initiative
      • Time to Talk Survey
    • For C.J. >
      • The For C.J. Initiative
    • Finding Herstory
    • KERNEL
    • I.D.G.A.
    • Other Works >
      • A Little Power Inside and Between
      • Power Inside and Between
      • Herstories
      • Ängsudden Song Cycle
      • As Above, As Below
      • Joy
      • Just Be
      • Let Us
      • Lift Up
      • Longing Belonging
      • The Motion of Words and Sound
      • One Day
      • Walk Good "Lady"
  • Virtual Theater
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