Anise S. Hines
Portfolio
Dis-place: Home
Choreographic Work In Progress
Photographer Henry Drewal
Images extracted from NYCPL Schomburg Canter for Research in Black Culture.
How do we create home after being removed?
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What do we remember from life before?
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What elements of ancestors live in our bodies?
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Will there always be a longing to reconnect?
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Inspired by the Siddis People - A group of people living in Karnataka India descending from South East Africa- I started the project as a self exploration process of uncovering my own ancestral and spiritual linage. Mainly to find that some answers will forever be unknown.
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Using contemporary as the thread, the movement explores Krump & Classical Indian dance forms. The project is based in storytelling & examining rituals and healing habits people use to cope with the pain of being uprooted.
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Oya: Wild is the Wind
Choreographic Project
Presented at NYC MultiCultural Festival
Wild is Wind is an contemporary piece inspired by the Afro-Cuban dances of the Orishas.
Paying homage to the powerful Goddess of the Wind:Oya.
She is dynamic in that she creates change.
She can clear out paths through destruction by bringing about raging storms
AND she can be as loving as a summer breeze.
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This piece has been presented at NYC Multicultural Festival
Wild as the Wind is a Nina Simone cover by Esperanza Spalding