In collaboration with Dance Mission, NAKA Dance Theater presents:
Sorry I Missed Your Show!! SIMYS!!
This series features informal and intimate conversations using archival media to reflect on past performances by Bay Area artists that have left a lasting impact on our performance community. Often, artists and fans find themselves saying, "Sorry I missed your show!" This series aims to revive those memorable performances, capturing their political and artistic significance from a specific era, space, and time.
Don't miss this rare opportunity for an intimate conversation with Joanna Haigood as she reflects on her seminal work, Invisible Wings.
Dance Mission Theater
August 24th
7 pm
Invisible Wings (1998)
This powerful site-specific work was created by choreographer Joanna Haigood during several Jacob's Pillow residencies in Massachusetts, inspired by the Pillow site’s history as a stop on the Underground Railroad for enslaved people escaping to freedom. Haigood works often involve in-depth research into the background and character of historic sites. Her collaborators on Invisible Wings included composer/arranger Linda Tillery and composer/sound designer Lauren Weinger. Storyteller Diane Ferlatte.
Joanna Haigood
Artistic Director of Zaccho Dance Theatre
Since 1980 Joanna has been creating work that uses natural, architectural and cultural environments as points of departure for movement exploration and narrative. Her stages have included grain terminals, a clock tower, the pope’s palace, military forts, and a mile of urban neighborhood streets in the South Bronx. Her work has been commissioned by many arts institutions, including Dancing in the Streets, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Walker Arts Center, the Exploratorium Museum, the National Black Arts Festival, and Festival d'Avignon. She has also been honored with the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, the United States Artist Fellowship, and a New York Bessie Award. Haigood is also a recipient of the esteemed Doris Duke Artist Award. Joanna has had the privilege to mentor many extraordinary young artists internationally at the National École des Arts du Cirque in France, the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in England, Spelman College, the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University, the San Francisco Circus Center and at Zaccho Studio.