Tal Halevi will be presenting Hidden in a Closet my Mother Imagined Being Wrapped in her Father’s Shawl, a solo piece exploring the body and mind’s protective wrappings. Tracing spirallic pathways, it follows movement across landscapes of memory.
Tal Halevi is a choreographer, dancer, and teacher based in New York City. Born and raised in Israel, she was a member of the Rina Schenfeld Dance Theater In Tel Aviv and performed with choreographers Nimrod Freed, Jeanette Stoner, and with New York Theater Ballet. Her choreography, exploring the interplay of physical embodiment, shifting states of consciousness, and their expression through movement, has been presented in Europe, Israel, and the United States. In New York, her work has been shown at Lincoln Center, Dance Theater Workshop’s Fresh Tracks, Dixon Place, Dance Now Festival, Movement Research at Judson Church, Joyce Soho, Performance Mix, and the 92NY. A registered somatic movement educator and a certified teacher and practitioner of Body-Mind Centering, she has led workshops on using somatic practices for dance-making, and has published several articles, including “The Anatomy of Risk” (2013) and “The Forms Things Take: Dance as Somatic Exploration” (2017) in Currents magazine.
Yolette Yellow-Duke (they/she) will be presenting an exploration of mediums.
Yolette Yellow-Duke has been exploring their love for the arts their entire life. Originally from Brooklyn, NY, they received their MA in Dance Performance with honors from the London Contemporary Dance School, where they wrote a dissertation examining cultural appropriation in dance and disparities between dancers of color and white dancers.
While at LCDS, they trained at RESET 2020 with Wayne McGregor company members and at GAGA LAB in Tel Aviv. Yolette has also trained at the Bates Dance Festival, Gallim Dance Intensive, Movement Research’s MELT Intensive, and the American Dance Festival, where she was a stagecraft apprentice for companies including Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Ballet Folklorico, Shen Wei Dance Arts, and Pilobolus.
As a performer, they’ve had the pleasure to work with Renegade Performance Group, Johnny Cruise Mercer, Kayla Farrish, J. Bouey, KINESIS PROJECT Dance Theatre, Thomasin Gulgec, Andre Tyson, Sara Hook, Camilo Godoy, Yun Cheng, and James Avery. Her choreography has premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Here Arts Summer Sublet Series, and Movement Research at Judson Church.
For Yolette, dance is rooted in the idea that movement is an act of healing, of resistance against oppressive systems, as well as a form of self-care. Through dance, they believe that we can all find moments of liberation.
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