Performance on the Eve of Negro Spring

taisha paggett’s work includes individual and collaborative investigations for the stage, gallery, and public sphere, which question the body, agency, and the phenomenology of race and gender. Her work has been presented widely, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, Danspace Project, and the Whitney Museum (NY); Defibrillator (Chicago); The Off Center (SF); Public Fiction and LACE (LA); and BAK (Utrecht). She has worked with David Roussève, Stanley Love Performance Group, Fiona Dolenga, Vic Marks, Kelly Nipper, Meg Wolfe, Ultra-red, and with Ashley Hunt on their project On Movement, Thought and Politics. paggett is on the dance faculty at UC Riverside, and is co-instigator of itch dance journal.