taisha paggett

taisha paggett (born 1976) is a Los Angeles-based choreographer and artist. Paggett is a faculty member at University of Riverside in the department of dance.[1] She has an idiosyncratic sensibility and is accustomed to working both onstage and in gallery settings. Paggett was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial.[2]

Education

Born in Fresno, California, Paggett received her BA in 2002 in Art History from UC Santa Cruz and her MFA in 2008 in Choreography from UCLA.

Career

Paggett presented Underwaters (we is ready, we is ready) at the 2014 Whitney Biennial. For the performance she moved through a score that transforms her into four different personas.[3]

"Taisha Paggett’s verse chorus is an evening-length work that deconstructs and makes use of Zumba, the popular dance fitness program. Focusing on the structures of repetition that characterize the aerobics form, the work uses an instructional format to highlight how pop culture creates a sense of shared knowledge."[4]

Paggett has performed in multiple, companies and group projects. As a dancer, paggett has worked with David Roussève/Reality, Meg Wolfe, Stanley Love Performance Group, Fiona Dolenga-Marcotty, Vic Marks, Cid Pearlman, Cheng-Chieh Yu, Baker-Tarpaga Projects, Rebecca Alson-Milkman, Kelly Nipper, and Ultra-red. She has regularly collaborated with Ashley Hunt since 2004 on a project frequently called On Movement, Thought and Politics including an exhibition at Sea and Space Explorations.[5] Paggett was also a dancer in the 2006 Mike Kelley film Day is Done.[6] Paggett is a LA-based artist and co-founder of the dance journal project itch, an art project and journal published twice a year.[7]

Paggett has performed and exhibited at Studio Museum in Harlem, Danspace at St Mark’s Church (New York); Defibrillator (Chicago); Commonwealth & Council, Public Fiction, and LACE (Los Angeles); The Off Center (San Francisco); and Basis Voor Actuele Kunst (Utrecht, NL).

References

  1. ↑ "Department of Dance: Taisha Paggett". University of California, Riverside. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "Taisha Paggett". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
  3. ↑ Kourlas, Gia (April 17, 2014). "Taisha Paggett performs her new Underwaters (we is ready, we is ready) at the 2014 Whitney Biennial". Time Out New York.
  4. ↑ "perFOREmance / february Taisha Paggett: verse chorus". Studio Museum Harlem. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Taisha Paggett, Artists' Resource for Completion, 2009 Fourth Quarter", Durfee Foundation.
  6. ↑ "Taisha Paggett", IMDb.
  7. ↑ "itch dance journal". Taisha Paggett. Retrieved July 13, 2015.

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