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SIdewalk Detroit and Kresge Arts in Detroit Present:
Original Online Film Premier "Quarantine Chronicle" by Erika "Red" Stowall
This film will live stream on Sidewalk Detroit and Kresge Art in Detroit's Facebook pages as well as in the event page.
“Quarantine Chronicle” is a series of dance for film exploring daily chores and home improvement that Stowall has adapted during quarantine. The Dance for film centers around routine and practicability. Activities Stowall took for granted such as sitting down to eat at the dinner table, cleaning the house, playing with her cats, or decorating the house now embody her everyday movements. Filmed by Julia Yezbick.
Erika ‘Red’ Stowall is an award-winning artist in dance and choreography residing in Detroit, MI. Red teaches in the Metro-Detroit area as a certified Dance instructor, K-12. She is a recipient of the Kresge Artist Fellowship, Applebaum’s Emerging Artist Award as well as Fulbright Hays GPA Study Abroad grant, awarded through the University of Detroit Mercy. Red uses her classical training combined with her background in West African dance as the foundation of her work. Her work is based on her life in Detroit, representation of Black stories, and advocating for Black women’s voices. Red sees her art as a calling and is passionate about creating performance pieces, which invite conversation on safe spaces for Women of Color, restoration, and positive narrative/images of Black communities. Red is the founder and current Artistic Director of Big Red Wall Dance Company. The company has been active since 2011.
Julia Yezbick is a filmmaker, artist, and anthropologist. She received her PhD in Media Anthropology and Critical Media Practice from Harvard University and an MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester. Her artistic work is grounded in long-term engagements with people and places and is often a critical part of her academic pursuits exploring labor and the body, the materiality of postindustrial urban landscapes, the senses, processes of creative knowledge production, and housing and the built environment.
About NOW:FUTURE:
NOW:FUTURE is a summer series of public art events and online engagements to highlight the contributions of Kresge Artist Fellows and Gilda Award recipients to Detroit’s dance, theatre, film, and music communities. The theme, NOW:FUTURE asks artists to reflect on their experiences and the world around them as it relates to our current cultural, political, and personal landscape.
