PURPLE’s community engagements capture the radical joy in a place.
SLMDances nurtures relationships with elder Black and brown women, facilitates the collection of their oral histories, and ultimately makes their stories visible through our
multi-media art installation What does PURPLE sound like?.
In a world where the lives of ordinary elder Black and brown women are often overlooked, PURPLE’s greatest impacts are amplifying their undertold stories and desires toward living just and self-determined lives.
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with Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center and Amsterdam Houses, NYC.
Our New York City engagement captures the radical joy in public housing communities via the stories of its decades long residents to:
uncover strategies of resilience,
to amplify cultural traditions,
and to shift public discourse and policy.
Engagement activities include: shared meals, participation in community activities, movement classes, cultural field trips, private performances, and creative movement and story telling workshops. We've worked in partnership with Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center and Amsterdam Houses with support from Lincoln Center Education Community Artist in Residence Program, CHANGING THE NARRATIVE, Barnard Center for Research on Women and Hi-ARTS Sky Lab Residency.
Community Voices