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Make Ready Again


Graphic of dancer Marguerite Hemmings jumping forward with face down over dirt. They are surrounded by grass and bush behind them. The photo is surrounded by a black background and text describing the event.

MAKE READY AGAIN

SHOW TIMES • DEC 5 @ 7:30 PM | DEC 6 @ 7:30 PM | DEC 7 @ 7:30 PM

THEATRE EXILE • 1340 S 13th St, Philadelphia, PA 19147


ABOUT THE EVENT

Join movement artist Marguerite Hemmings and an array of stellar musicians for Make Ready Again, an evening of dance, storytelling, and music. Plagued by the collective shadow of an unanswered call for reparations and repair for the African Diaspora, Marguerite performs a live process of meeting their own diaspora-shaped shadow, who invites them to unravel, rage, and grieve. Seeking answers at first, Marguerite comes up empty, but ready. Take your time and unravel – this is an invitation to become present again, clear again, ready again.

photos by Dante Napoli

  • Marguerite A.M. Hemmings is a Jamaican Philadelphia-based artist who specializes in emergent, improvisational and social movement styles and technologies. They are researching the subversive role of dance and music technologies throughout the African Diaspora and channels these technologies throughout their work using body, text, social/public media, and moving image.

    Hemmings’ work is also embedded in alternative pedagogy and social practice/research and they have worked at University of the Arts in the School of Dance, Arizona State University, Princeton University, and many afterschool programs and community centers. They have received grants and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, Harlem Stage, University Settlement, Dancing While Black, Urban Bush Women’s Choreographic Center Initiative, Arizona State University’s Projecting All Voices Fellowship, Abrons Arts Center, Headlong Performance Institute, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts to further their research. They've received a Bessie Award for Outstanding Performer in Eva Yaa Asantewaa’s Skeleton Architecture as well as directed and performed in the Bessie nominated piece, ‘we free’.

    Visit wefreeee.com and their IG page: @margueriteangelicamonique to see more.

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