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Our Mothers’ Gardens is a Honeybunch of Stinkweed Production, and features music Produced by Ptah. Our Mothers’ Gardens is made possible in part by the generous sponsorship of patrons, Emmett Swan and James McCarthy.

Our Mothers’ Gardens is a Honeybunch of Stinkweed Production, and features music Produced by Ptah. Our Mothers’ Gardens is made possible in part by the generous sponsorship of patrons, Emmett Swan and James McCarthy.

"Intimacy with Self": In the Garden with Lela Aisha Jones

Julia Brown

Wit López speaks with Arielle Julia Brown and Lela Aisha Jones about their involvement in "Grounds that Shout! (and others merely shaking" curated by Reggie Willson.  The series involves panels, performances, and more that will take place on May 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, and 11th, 2019.

Shaking and Shouting, Arielle Julia Brown and Lela Aisha Jones on their roles in Reggie Wilson’s ‘Grounds That Shout! (and others merely shaking)’

In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing dancer and choreographer Lela Aisha Jones, whose work infuses her movement with the intellectual and movement traditions of the African diaspora. Find out what led her to her unique and multifaceted form of expression, her favorite recipes, what it means to be the archivist of the body, and more– all while she’s getting ready to teach class! Join us and tune in.  Lela Aisha Jones is a movement performance artist that intertwines personal history, diasporic movement, and social commentary. The foundation of her work is the individual and collective lived experiences of blackness as archived in and excavated from the body through dance.  As the founder of her creative home FlyGround she directs her own artistic projects, the Dancing for Justice Philadelphia Initiative, and  Requisite Movers Program and Performances.  Lela is a  2016 Pew Fellow and also a member of the inaugural 2015 Innovative Cultural TheAdvocacy Fellowship program. To follow Lela Aisha Jones’ work, the initiatives she’s leading, or to watch her performances visit her website at http://www.flygroundera.com, to be included on her mailing list please email her at flyground@gmail.com  Interested in the daance artists, companies, and projects Lela mentions on the show? Click these links!  Dancing for Justice (video) Dancing for Justice (facebook) Margo Blake Kulu Mele Urban Bush Women The People’s Institute For Survival and Beyond  Deneane Richburg Nia Love, Marjani Forte  Dorothy Wilkie Onye Ozuzu Rize Onye Ozuzu Guinea Fare Sambada  Books To Read:  M Jaqui Alexander’s Pedagogies of Crossing  Artists to check out:  Leslie Zakiya Cornish Jorge Mayet  Favorite resource to rely on:  Egusi Stew   The post Ep 2 Dancer and Choreographer Lela Aisha Jones appeared first on Contemporary Black Canvas.

In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing dancer and choreographer Lela Aisha Jones, whose work infuses her movement with the intellectual and movement traditions of the African diaspora. Find out what led her to her unique and multifaceted form of expression, her favorite recipes, what it means to be the archivist of the body, and more– all while she’s getting ready to teach class! Join us and tune in. Lela Aisha Jones is a movement performance artist that intertwines personal history, diasporic movement, and social commentary. The foundation of her work is the individual and collective lived experiences of blackness as archived in and excavated from the body through dance.  As the founder of her creative home <a href="http://www.flygroundera.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FlyGround</a> she directs her own artistic projects, the Dancing for Justice Philadelphia Initiative, and  <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheRequisiteMovers/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Requisite Movers Program and Performances</a>.  Lela is a  2016 Pew Fellow and also a member of the inaugural 2015 Innovative Cultural TheAdvocacy Fellowship program. To follow Lela Aisha Jones’ work, the initiatives she’s leading, or to watch her performances visit her website at <a href="http://www.flygroundera.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.flygroundera.com</a>, to be included on her mailing list please email her at flyground@gmail.com  Interested in the daance artists, companies, and projects Lela mentions on the show? Click these links! <ul> <li><a href="https://vimeo.com/185537615" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dancing for Justice </a>(video)</li> <li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/DFJPhilly/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dancing for Justice</a> (facebook)</li> <li><a href="http://www.ghazeldancestudio.com/margo-blake.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Margo Blake</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.kulumele.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kulu Mele</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.urbanbushwomen.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Urban Bush Women</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.pisab.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The People’s Institute For Survival and Beyond</a></li> <li> <a href="http://www.brownbody.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Deneane Richburg</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.nia-love.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nia Love</a>,</li> <li><a href="https://gibneydance.org/performance/past-seasons/making-space-season-spring-2015/marjani-forte/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marjani Forte</a></li> <li> <a href="http://www.folkloreproject.org/artists/dorothy-wilkie" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dorothy Wilkie</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.colum.edu/academics/fine-and-performing-arts/dance/faculty-detail/onye-ozuzu.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Onye Ozuzu</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPMQiP1waI8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Riz</a>e</li> <li><a href="http://www.colum.edu/academics/fine-and-performing-arts/dance/faculty-detail/onye-ozuzu.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Onye Ozuzu</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.wontanaradrumdance.ca/mohamed-bio" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Guinea Fare</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.sambada.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sambada</a></li> </ul> Books To Read: <ul> <li>M Jaqui Alexander’s <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pedagogies-Crossing-Meditations-Modernities-Halberstam/dp/0822336456" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pedagogies of Crossing</a></li> </ul> Artists to check out: <ul> <li><a href="https://vimeo.com/lesliezakiya" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Leslie Zakiya Cornish</a></li> <li><a href="http://richardtaittinger.com/artist/jorge-mayet/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jorge Mayet</a></li> </ul> Favorite resource to rely on: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.allnigerianrecipes.com/soups/egusi-soup.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Egusi Stew </a></li> </ul> The post <a href="http://www.contemporaryblackcanvas.com/ep-2-dancer-choreographer-lela-aisha-jones/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ep 2 Dancer and Choreographer Lela Aisha Jones</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.contemporaryblackcanvas.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Contemporary Black Canvas</a>.

Ep 2 Dancer and Choreographer Lela Aisha Jones