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MSP 134: Shamel Pitts
Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast
English - May 09, 2022 19:15 - 57 minutes - 51.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsPerforming Arts Arts Society & Culture artists collaboration artsadministration choreographer collaborator curator dance dancer interview performingarts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Today's guest is Shamel Pitts. Shamel is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, as well as performance, conceptual, and spoken word artist. Since 2019, he is the artistic director/founder of TRIBE, a New York-based multidisciplinary arts collective which was a 2020-21 Artist-In-Residence at 92Y Harkness Dance Center.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, he started his professional dance career with Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Hell’s Kitchen Dance and BJM_Danse Montreal. Between 2009-2016, he was a company member of the Batsheva Dance Company, led by Ohad Naharin where he studied Gaga movement language, of which he is now a certified teacher. Since 2015, Shamel has created a triptych of award-winning multidisciplinary works known as “BLACK Series,” which has been performed and toured extensively to many festivals around the world. He is the recipient of a 2018 Princess Grace Award in Choreography, a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Award winner in Choreography, and a 2020 Jacob’s Pillow artist in residence, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, and the cast member of the 2021 Bessie Award-winning production of “The Motherboard Suite” at New York Live Arts.
For more on Shamel and this episode: Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast