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Charmaine Warren and Black Dance Stories features a conversation with Bebe and Kyle Abraham.    

Gillian Jakab spoke with Bebe and Cynthia about their history together, the evolution of Cynthia’s boom!, imposed boundaries on “Black dance,” and the choreographies of the pandemic. GILLIAN JAKAB It’s so wonderful to have the two of you in conversation. What has kept you busy during the pandemic? CYNTHIA OLIVER I’m sitting in the midst of all of […]

Lion’s Jaw Festival collaborates with some legends of U.S. dance during quarantine in a series of conversations about lineage, legacy and personal history.

Bebe performed a new solo, What I Learned From My Friends, at the first-ever Motion State Dance Festival in Providence, RI. The piece was inspired by (and in awe of) Angie Hauser and Darrell Jones, longtime BMC collaborators. Bebe also taught a master class to local dance artists including several faculty members from Roger Williams […]

What an enlightening and generous final Vault convening on artist-led archiving happened this weekend. A wonderfully diverse group of dance artists, activists, archivists, presenters and scholars brought their all to the table. Special thanks to Lane Czaplinski/Wexner Center for the Arts for co-hosting, and Ann Hamilton and Michael Mercil for their inspiring space. The last of five such […]