By Clint Talbott
Principal investigator
Helanius J. Wilkins
Funding
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Collaboration + support
College of Arts and Sciences
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Helanius J. Wilkins, assistant professor of dance, was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant for a choreographed duet intended to 鈥渉eal and unite鈥� and to reflect 鈥渞e-bodying belonging to become better ancestors.鈥�
With the NEA鈥檚 support鈥攁nd with additional funding and support from the College of Arts and Sciences鈥擶ilkins and the CU 麻豆影院 dance division will collaborate with several touring, commissioning presenter-partners.
The work is called The Conversation Series: Stitching the Geopolitical Quilt to Re-Body Belonging and is described as a multi-year, multi-outcome work that is 鈥渁n ongoing and always shifting dance-quilt, confronting and celebrating heritage, resiliency, justice and hope.鈥�
Wilkins said his creative research is rooted in the interconnections of American contemporary performance, cultural history and identities of Black men.
Photo by Christopher Michael Carruth