School for the Movement of the Technicolor People
COLLABORATION WITH Taisha Paggett, Kim Zumpfe and WXPT — which has included: Angela Anderson, Charmaine Bee, Heyward Bracey, Rebecca Bruno, Erin Christovale, Loren Fenton, Maria Mae Garcia, Meena Murugesan, Kloii “Hummingbird” Hollis, Sebastian Peters-Lazaro, Kristianne Salcines, Ché Ture, Devika Wickremesinghe, and Suné Woods
“The School for the Movement of the Technicolor People” found its first home at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) in 2015, conceived as an exhibition by taisha paggett, Ashley Hunt and Kim Zumpfe, curated by Robert Crouch. The exhibition served as the infrastructure for the school’s curriculum — as its learning objects, images and architecture; as the space for free public classes; and as the stage for the company’s performances.
Likewise, the components of the exhibition offered a version of the School’s curriculum to visitors to the exhibition when classes are not taking place.Fully functioning as dance school, with its curriculum structured around the question, “What is a Black dance curriculum today?”, the School offered free, weekly dance classes to the public, with an accumulative structure that led to the show’s closing performance, “Meadow.”
The School for the Movement of the Technicolor People was made possible by The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital, primarily supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional funds come from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and sponsored by a grant from the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts.
Development support of School for the Movement of the Technicolor People was given through Show Box L.A.’s Los Angeles Dance & Research Residency Program, which is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
This project is currently in its second iteration and will be installed, April 2016 in Houston, Texas.