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Davalois Fearon Dance perform The Motion of Words and Sound, a music, dance, and poetry experience at the 2019 Vision Festival. Featuring long time music and dance collaborators Davalois Fearon and Mike McGinnis, joined by world-renowned poet Patricia Smith, it stems from Fearon’s most recent work the Power Inside and Between, a site-specific piece commissioned by Pentacel for the 2019 Dance Series at the Rubin Museum of Art which reclaims the trope of the “Angry Black Woman” to find the power inside rage, inside the community, and inside the black female body. The Motion of Words and Sound is a mixture of improvised and composed music and dance inspired by rage, sexuality, the words of Patricia Smith, and the spirit of improvisation.

Davalois Fearon – dance, artistic director / Mike McGinnis – woodwinds, music director / Patricia Smith – poetry / Morgan Anderson – dance / Neri Rutherford – dance / Mikaila Ware – dance / Peter Apfelbaum – woodwinds, piano / Gerald Cleaver – drums / Jasmine Murrell – costumes, wearable sculptures, makeup

Filmed and recorded June 12, 2019 for AFA Vision Festival 24 at Roulette, Brooklyn.

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The work of Davalois Fearon, Artistic Director of Davalois Fearon Dance (DFD), has been lauded by colleagues as “unapologetic” and by critics as “electrifying.” Born on the island of Jamaica and raised in the Bronx, New York, Fearon is an accomplished choreographer, dancer, and educator. She received a Bessie Award for her performance in “the skeleton architecture, or the future of our worlds” in 2017, and was named among “7 Up-and-Coming Black Dance Artists Who Should Be On Your Radar” by Dance Magazine in 2018. She is also a member of the Joyce Theater’s Young Leaders Circle Artist Committee and has been featured in prominent publications such as The New York Times, Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit, The Village Voice, and The New Yorker. From 2005–2017, Fearon performed and taught around the world with the Stephen Petronio Company, before founding DFD in 2016 with the mission to push artistic and social boundaries and help cultivate the next generation of dance artists.

Davalois Fearon Dance was founded in 2016 by Davalois Fearon, with the mission to push artistic and social boundaries by creating multidisciplinary works that confront difficult issues and prompt contemplation. Fearon brings her diverse movement vocabulary, hailed by critics for its “tenacious virtuosity,” to collaborations with diverse creators including poet Patricia Smith, multi-reedist Mike McGinnis, fashion photographer Nigel HoSang, interdisciplinary artist Andre Zachery, and visual artist Deborah Castillo. Her critically acclaimed choreography has been presented nationally and internationally, and at prestigious venues such as the Joyce Theater and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. DFD has received recurring support from the Bronx Council on the Arts, and foundational support from the MuKha Arts & Science Foundation and the Mayer Foundation. The company was selected to participate in the DanceMotion USA Professional Development Follow-on Program in 2017 and received arts administration and professional development support from Pentacle from 2017 to 2019.

Audio by Stephen Schmidt. Film production by Moon Lasso: