Grounds that Shout

• Date: February 18, 2022
• Time: 2:00 pm—3:30 pm
• Location: Video Production Studio

• Speakers

  • Deborah Thomas, The R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology, and the Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography – University of Pennsylvania
  • Reggie Wilson, Executive and Artistic Director, Choreographer and Performer – Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group
  
  

This panel consists of a film screening of GROUNDS THAT SHOUT!!!…and others merely shaking, followed by a discussion between Reggie Wilson and Deborah Thomas.  GROUNDS THAT SHOUT! is a film documentary of the 2018-2019 dance project supported by the Danspace Project, Philadelphia Contemporary, and Partners for Sacred Places, and curated by Reggie Wilson.  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 (CEE), GROUNDS THAT SHOUT! takes viewers on a journey into Wilson’s curatorial process, one that explores the cultural encounters between the city and its histories, artists and spaces of worship.