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MIGRATUSE REIMAGINED: HARPERSVILLE

Harpersville, AL Performance Details

Dates:
Friday, March 22, 2024 
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Location:
Harpersville Community/Senior Center
39321 Alabama 25 Harpersville, AL 35078

7:00 p.m. Dessert Sampling and Mingling
7:30 p.m. Performance

Dress to impress

Wideman Davis Dance (WDD) will close out their year-long residency in Harpersville, AL with the premiere of Migratuse Reimagined (Harpersville). Wideman Davis Dance will transform the Harpersville Community Center into an immersive space of memory and reflection. Through an archive of interviews, dance, and digital media design, WDD will bring Black life to the center as a monument to human life and resilience in two FREE multi-disciplinary performances. Please join us on March 22 or March 23, 2024. 

This event is made possible by the Mellon Foundation with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Alternate Roots, and the International Association of Blacks in Dance.

Wideman Davis Dance would like to thank our community partners for the Monuments project residency in Harpersville: The Town of Harpersville, The Wallace House, Kim Riggins, and the Alabama Dance Council.

MIGRATUSE ATARAXIA

Wilmington, NC Performance Details

Dates:
Thursday, November 10, 2022, 7:00 pm
(Doors: 6:00 pm)
Friday, November 11, 2022, 7:00 pm
(Doors: 6:00 pm)
Location: The Bellamy Mansion, 503 Market Street, Wilmington, NC

Wideman Davis Dance presents Migratuse Ataraxia, a site-specific work that will be performed in the Bellamy Mansion in Wilmington, NC. Migratuse Ataraxia is a multimedia dance performance that shifts the rules of representation in antebellum domestic spaces to memorialize the lives of enslaved individuals through movement, technology, visual installations, and community dialogue. Performers will lead audience members through a series of vignettes – each staged in a separate room – that de-territorializes each room and challenges notions of freedom and movement through racialized spaces. 

Masks are required for all audience members during the show.

MIGRATUSE REIMAGINED

Selma Performance Details

Date: Thursday, October 13, 2022, 7:30 pm
Location: Historic Selma University Campus
Campus Parking: Enter from Minter Avenue
In Case of Rain: Jemison-Owens Auditorium-Gymnasium

Date: Saturday, October 15, 2022, 7:30 pm
Location: Historic Good Samaritan Hospital
Parking: Dallas County Court Services (enter from Broad Street & Voeglin Avenue)
In Case of Rain: Dr. Michael and Catherine Bullock Community and Recreation Center Gym

There is no performance on October 14.

Free tickets, reservations required.

Migratuse Reimagined is the latest iteration of Wideman Davis Dance’s performative exploration of intimacy, home, and expressions of freedom and joy, among others. Whereas previous stagings explored these questions in the context of slavery, the artists intentionally shift the journey from spaces of enslavement to those of Black liberation and empowerment through a mobile, performative intervention. Participants will travel a walking tour route where they will encounter the artists’ responses to historic, Black spaces through large scale projections, sonic environments, and live performances that speak to Black futurity.

Click here to view the event flyer.

MIGRATUSE ATARAXIA

Location:
Ware-Farley-Hood House
450 North Hull
Montgomery, AL

Performance Dates:
September 1, 2022
September 2, 2022
September 3, 2022

Time: 7:30 pm

Free tickets, reservations required.

Wideman Davis Dance presents Migratuse Ataraxia, a site-specific work that will be performed in the Ware-Farley-Hood House in Montgomery, AL. Migratuse Ataraxia is a multimedia dance performance that shifts the rules of representation in antebellum domestic spaces to memorialize the lives of enslaved individuals through movement, technology, visual installations, and community dialogue. Performers will lead audience members through a series of vignettes – each staged in a separate room – that de-territorializes each room and challenges notions of freedom and movement through racialized spaces. Performances are September 1-3. Performances are free, but a reservation is required because space is limited.

Masks required for all audience members during the show.

*No dinner will be served due to COVID restrictions

PAST WORKS

Migratuse Ataraxia

Based on Images

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Above: Migratuse Ataraxia Installation at Bridgeport Arts Center, Chicago, IL. Photo courtesy of Wideman Davis Dance. Artists: Tanya Wideman-Davis and Thaddeus Davis. Tanya Wideman-Davis Teaching a virtual workshop for the University of Southern Mississippi. Photo courtesy of Wideman-Davis Dance. Migratuse Ataraxia Installation at Bridgeport Arts Center, Chicago, IL. Photo courtesy of Wideman Davis Dance. Artist: Petra Everson. Past Works: credits here