On October 3rd, at 6pm, the Weaving Dreams Exhibition Opening features a live excerpt performance of PURPLE by Sydnie L. Mosley Dances, celebrating Mosley’s longtime collaboration with textile artist and scholar Dr. Kim F Hall, part of the PURPLE “universe.” Along with a vibrant collective of dancers, director and choreographer Sydnie L. Mosley BC’ 07, and associate director Amy Shoshana Blumberg BC ‘09 lead an interactive experience that showcases oral storytelling, embodiment and audience participation. Seeded and nurtured by her time studying with both Professor Hall and legendary poet/choreographer Notzake Shange ‘70, Mosley’s work cultivates joy in community spaces, upholds traditions of sisterhood maintained by Black and Brown women over generations, and centers “elders as royalty.”
The performance will be followed by a Q&A with artist Kim F. Hall, performer Dyane Harvey, and associate director Amy Shoshana Blumberg.
More info about Weaving Dreams: https://library.barnard.edu/weaving-dreams-exhibition
Open to non CUID holders - RSVP required by Monday, September 29
Featured Artists
Kim F. Hall is the Lucyle Hook Professor of English and Professor of Africana Studies at Barnard College. Her quilts have been displayed in Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, South Carolina and New York. She is a member of the Quilters of Color Network of New York and the African American Quilters of Baltimore, and co-curator for the Weaving Dreams exhibition.
Dyane Harvey is a performing artist, dance educator, choreographer, assistant to the director of Forces of Nature Dance Theatre, and Pilates instructor. In honor of her collaborations with Ntozake Shange, she wrote “Making Movement As An Act of Listening, Riding With The Muse,” for the College Language Arts Journal.
Amy Shoshana Blumberg is a theater director, writer, and dramaturg based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA in Theater Directing from Temple University and a BA in Africana Studies and Dance from Barnard College. She will lead an interactive experience that showcases oral storytelling, embodiment and audience participation.
Sydnie L. Mosley is a choreographer and writer renowned for socially aware creative work with her collective SLMDances. Her repertoire including critically-acclaimed evening length dances PURPLE: A Ritual In Nine Spells, The Window Sex Project, and BodyBusiness—as well as their creative processes—are a model for dance-activism. At Barnard, she has taught in the departments of Africana Studies and Dance, and designed the Pre-College Program’s Dance in the City program.