About “Concourse”
Shakia Barron and Barbie Diewald have received a New Work New England grant of $12,000 through the New England Foundation for the Arts.
“Concourse, created by choreographers Barbie Diewald and Shakia Barron, is a dance project that extends the duet form. Barron and Diewald facilitate a live dialogue in performance, joined by their mentors and emerging artists who are former students. Bringing vision and legacy into conversation at the level of the body, this confluence creates an intergenerational community of inquiry, and affirms that mentorship is multidirectional: we glean as much from our mentees as from our mentors. Concourse celebrates the feedback loops that occur when we collapse the distinctions between self, student, teacher, and material.” See more details on the NEFA website.
Dancers/Collaborators: Soukeyna Abbot, Sienna Jessurun, Katherine Kain, Miranda Lawson, Sarah Maurer, Amisi Nazaire-Hicks
Composer: Jazer Giles
Residencies
June 25-27, 2021: Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA)
July 23-25, 2021: Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA)
August 16-20, 2021: Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA) —showing at the Northampton Center for the Arts on August 20, 2021
October 23-24, 2021: Art In Motion (Easthampton, MA)
October 28-31, 2021: Jacob’s Pillow (Becket, MA) — showing at the Jacob’s Pillow College Convening on October 30, 2021
December 10-12, 2021: High Street Studios (Ipswich, MA)– showing at High Street Studios on December 11, 2021
June 13-17, 2022: MAGMA (Gloucester, MA)
July 17-23, 2022: Bates Dance Festival (Lewiston, MA)
