Introduction/Big Brick – A Man’s Piece

High energy dance, shouting, and lessons about life, travel, and where we’ve all been – it’s all in the package with Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group. This Houston premiere performance begins with Introduction, an informative lecture given by Wilson on his personal history and research that evolves into an entranced, rhythmic telling of the hidden rituals of Christians of the African Diaspora. Big Brick – A Man’s Piece is a new group work in which choreographer Wilson struggles with the stereotyped assumptions and pitfalls of being male. Wilson draws from the movement languages of the blues, slave, and spiritual cultures of Africans in the Americas (and Diaspora) and combines them with postmodern elements and his own personal movement style to create what he sometimes calls “post-African/Modern dances.”