Movement of the People Dance Company

A Re-Remembering Project

Work in progress showing
Thurs | July 24 | 8pm
Memorial Commons, Chase Hall
Free and open to the public

Movement of the People Dance Company, led by two time BDF-faculty member Joya Powell, will be in residence for one week, working on A Re-Remembering Project.

A Re-Remembering Project is an intergenerational oral-history multimedia dance project evoking the stories of one neighborhood in Harlem, as told by three generations of Black women who’ve lived there for nearly a century. Witness their stories and their descendants’ stories, moving in deep relationships to place and lineage. The piece fuses African diasporic dance from the U.S. and Caribbean and poetry; and uses audience immersive engagement to go on a journey shifting through portals of time. It’s a love letter, in the form of a performance, to our community. 

Celebrating their 20th anniversary, Movement of the People Dance Company (MOPDC) is dedicated to addressing sociocultural injustices through multidisciplinary immersive Contemporary Dance. Performance engagements include: BAM, Lincoln Center, SummerStage, La Mama, The 92nd St Y, BAAD!, The Dance Complex (Cambridge, MA), York College (Toronto), Casa Del Prado Theater (San Diego, CA), among others. MOPDC has received honors including: LMCC & UMEZ grants, CUNY Dance Initiative, The School of Contemporary Dance & Thought residencies (Northampton, MA), Certificate of Appreciation – Manhattan Borough President: Gale Brewer. MOPDC facilitates community engagements locally, nationally and internationally.