Urban Bush Women residency brings dance-theatre to WCMA

Written By Urban Bush Women

by Cecily Houghton and Eliza Rubel

The Urban Bush Women performed Haint Blu at WCMA. (Photo courtesy of Roz Crews.)

For four days in early October, members of the Urban Bush Women (UBW) performed as artists in residence at the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA). They shared an adapted version of their latest dance-theatre work Haint Blu and collaborated with Assistant Professor of Art Pallavi Sen, whose WCMA exhibition “Pallavi Sen: Colour Theory” opened on Sept. 20. The group also led a class, “Dance for Every Body,” at the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance on Oct. 3.

Urban Bush Women

Founded in 1984 by choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Urban Bush Women (UBW) seeks to bring the untold and under-told histories and stories of disenfranchised people to light through dance. We do this from a woman-centered perspective and as members of the African Diaspora community in order to create a more equitable balance of power in the dance world and beyond.

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