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SIdewalk Detroit and Kresge Arts in Detroit Present:
Original Online Film Premier “Reflect.Black.TImes” by Marsae Mitchell
This film will live stream on Sidewalk Detroit and Kresge Art in Detroit's Facebook pages as well as in the event page.
Marsae Mitchell’s original dance piece “Reflect.Black.TImes” takes influence from songs and interviews by Nina Simone and three original poems. The songs elaborate on how the institutions of white supremacy have affected and continue to affect people of color.
The future MitchelI wants for her community is one of love. She believes Black love, Black families and Black education are the most revolutionary ways to negate the effects of white supremacy.
Marsae Mitchell is a dancer & educator. She studied with the Alvin Ailey School of Dance in New York and later received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus in dance from Marygrove College. Marsae has performed and taught dance throughout the U.S. including California, New York, and Texas. She studies and teaches several techniques including Ballet, Horton, Dunham, Contemporary & Tap. Marsae is the 2016 recipient of the Kresge Art Foundation's Gilda Award for her work as the lead choreographer & co-producer of "My Hair, My Story, My Glory," an artistic narrative on the history and culture of hair expressed through poetry, music, and dance. Marsae is also the 2020 recipient of the University of Michigan Rackham Merit Fellowship, SMTD Graduate Fellowship and Graduate Student Teacher Appointment. She is motivated by the belief that it is an artist's responsibility to engage, empower, and educate.
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.
