Pace Live — Torkwase Dyson

About the Collaborators

Harry Alexander is a London based Dancer and Movement Director. He has been a member of Michael Clark Company since 2010, started performing with Julie Cunningham & Company in 2016 and has also danced choreography by Lea Anderson, Carlos Pons Guerra and Thick and Tight.

Maëva Berthelot is a choreographer, performer, movement director and teacher whose mode of working unfolds along the threshold between experimental, performative and collaborative approaches.

Dionne Brand is a renowned poet, novelist, and essayist known for formal experimentation and the beauty and urgency of her work. Brand’s award-winning poetry books include Land to Light On; thirsty; Inventory; and Ossuaries (winner of the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize).

Dr. Leronn Brooks Ph.D. is the Associate Curator for Modern and Contemporary Collections, specializing in African American art, at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. Dr. Brooks is a specialist in African American art, poetics, performance, and Africana Studies.

Joseph Funnell is an interdisciplinary artist, performer and activist based in London, who works to support migrant rights, the LGBTQIA+ community, the movement for black lives and the anti-racist struggle.

GAIKA is a multi-disciplinary artist from South London. Through an experimental and prolific approach that darkly fuses music, art, technology, literature and film into a catch-all aesthetic, GAIKA has created a unique style he terms ‘Ghetto Futurism’.

Tyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry, Leadbelly and Olio. Olio won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The Midland Society Author’s Award in Poetry, and received an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.

Rowdy SS is a London born and based, multidisciplinary artist. Often working at the intersection/s of sound/music, dance/movement and live performance alongside making videos; working with instigation and/or response. He is currently a Somerset House Studios Resident Artist.

Christina Sharpe is a writer, professor, and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University. She is the author of: In the Wake: On Blackness and Being and Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects. Her third book, Ordinary Notes, will be published in 2022 (Knopf/FSG/Daunt).

Malik Nashad Sharpe is an artist working with choreography. They create performances that are formally experimental and engaged with the construction of atmosphere, affect, and dramaturgy.

Shani Ha is a French-Algerian multidisciplinary artist, based in Paris and New York. Her sculptures, performances, public art, and drawings investigate the somatic fragility of empathy, intimacy, otherness, and humanity at large.