Currently mounted at Nimbus’s Firmament Gallery + Boutique is “Sometimes I Wander…” an exhibit displaying the photography of Life Magazine’s first Black photographer, Gordon Parks, and staff photographer at The Source, Chi Modu. The gallery, which regularly features local and Black art, showcases images of Blackness, Americana, and Community: Hip Hop.
The interdisciplinary work “Aristotle Thinks Again” is a thought-provoking masterpiece written by Chuck Mee, directed and choreographed by Dan Shafer, and co-created and choreographed by the immensely talented members of Great Jones Repertory.
Complexity often frightens people from engaging with the critical context and history that informs our current realities. So, what you will read is [not] complex. It is current and quite easy to understand: Colonizing powers have a problem with Indigeneity.
This iteration of the work, presented as part of the Underground Uptown Festival’s Works and Process at the Guggenheim, was segmented to create discourse around the creative process. I can only describe my experience as profound.
The flower we touch as children in awe burns. The only chide needed to withdraw. With undeniable power to flaw, fire will still flicker and die. For it lives, as do You and I. …a heap of various regrets, sorrowful realities of unfledged dreams, or
Confluence. Storage. Breach. Darvejon A. Jones on Kari Hoaas’s “Shadowland” at La MaMa Moves
Hunter College Dance MFA Darvejon Jones writes about a program at the La MaMa Moves 2023 Festival.