Summer Stages Dance @ ICA/Boston: Shamel Pitts | TRIBE Sneak Preview Showing

Summer Stages Dance @ ICA is proud to present a special work-in-progress showing by choreographer Shamel Pitts. Following their highly acclaimed and sold out performances at the museum, Pitts and the artist collective TRIBE return to begin work on their newest project Marks of RED, an Afrofuturist meditation on the “womb space.” Pitts and his collaborators will explore this metaphorical space of regeneration, enfolding, rupture, and potential. Be among the first to see this new work take shape.

Shamel Pitts, a 2024 Doris Duke Artist Award recipient, is a performance artist, choreographer, conceptual artist, dancer, spoken word artist, director, and teacher. Born in Brooklyn, NY, Pitts began his dance training at LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and, simultaneously, at The Ailey School. He is a first prize winner in The National Arts Competition from YoungArts. Pitts went on to receive his BFA in dance from The Juilliard School and was awarded the Martha Hill Award for excellence in dance. He began his dance career in Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Hell’s Kitchen Dance and BJM_Danse Montreal. Pitts danced with Batsheva Dance Company for seven years under the artistic direction of Ohad Naharin and is a certified teacher of Gaga movement language. Pitts has created a triptych of award-winning multidisciplinary performances, with his arts collective TRIBE, known as his “BLACK series,” which has toured extensively to many festivals & performance spaces around the world since 2016. He is an adjunct professor at The Juilliard School, a guest faculty member at Princeton University, New York University, Wesleyan University and has been an artist in residence at Harvard University. He is the recipient of a Princess Grace Award in Choreography, a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow, a Jacob’s Pillow artist-in-residence, and a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow. Learn more about TRIBE >> itsatribe.org | itsatribe

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