Meet you in her garden, TONIGHT 🌱 doors open at 7PM, show starts at 7:30pm • Aug 21, @dromnyc, must be 21+ to enter 🌷 Tickets on sale at the LINK IN BIO and bit.ly/hergarden.
#ArtMeetsActivism #FeminineDivine #WiseFruit #WiseFruitNYC #HerGarden #BrindaGuhaPresents
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TOMORROW is WISE FRUIT DAY 11.0: Her Garden, hosted by Ianne Fields Stewart, curated by Brinda Guha 🌱🌷 Grab your last minute tickets at bit.ly/hergarden 🔆
Headliners:
Sun Kim
Sekou McMiller + Friends
Kim Holmes
Esraa Warda
Asha DaHomey
Soles of Duende
Ladies of Hip Hop
Mike Esperanza
Collaborations by:
Annette Philip + Alex Mitchell
Rohan Misra + Shannon Yu
Yacouba Sissoko + Reyna Nuñez
Beats by:
DJ Sabine Blaizin • Oyasound
Come celebrate the feminine divine! 🍇🫐🍑🍒🔆
TOMORROW, we create and share from the #FeminineDivine. Hope to see you! TIX on SALE 🎟️ www.bit.ly/hergarden 🌱🔆🌷
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#ArtMeetsActivism #WiseFruit #WiseFruitNYC #FeminineDivine
Join the illustrious @thefreeactorvist and the dance community THIS MONDAY 8/21/23 at @dromnyc ❤️🌷Doors 7PM, 21+, $20 • TIX at bit.ly/hergarden 🎟️
#WiseFruit #WiseFruitFam #ArtMeetsActivism #FeminineDivine #BrindaGuhaPresents
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HIP HOP 🔆🔥
HEADLINER 🌷 LADIES OF HIP HOP • Ladies of Hip-Hop Dance Collective (LDC) is an all female intergenerational dance collective that creates dance works illuminating the strength, power and diversity of women in Hip-Hop. Ever present in the work are the freestyle, cipher, and call and response aspects of the origins of street and club dance culture, while exploring the space of proscenium performance. Led by director and choreographer Michele Byrd-McPhee, LDC creates work that celebrates and centers feminist narratives examining the intersections of gender, race, and resistance.
🎟️🎟️🎟️TIX IN BIO & www.bit.ly/hergarden.
AUG 21 • 7PM • 21+ • @dromnyc
#WiseFruit #WiseFruitNYC #ArtMeetsActivism #FeminineDivine #BrindaGuhaPresents #LadiesOfHipHop #LOHH #MicheleByrdMcPhee
HEADLINER 🌷 KIM HOLMES @kimd.holmes • For the last 20 years, Kim Holmes has emerged as one of the premiere, influential luminaries of the urban dance movement with unparalleled vibrancy, sensuality, and versatility. This legendary, leading lady and vanguard of Hip-Hop dance culture, has sought to redefine the face of the hip hop/urban dance movement as a heavily sought after dancer, choreographer, and Founder and Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed, Universal Dance Movement. Along with her formal training in traditional dance forms of African, Ballet, Jazz, Modern, and Contemporary, to name a few, Kim became intensely mesmerized by the pulsating energy of contemporary urban dance as expressed within forms of Hip-Hop and House. Her evolving intrigue in hip hop and house led her to an opportunity to tour and work with some of the top performers and influential artists within the music industry, including Jay-z, Foxy Brown, Lil Kim, Missy Elliot, Salt n Pepa, Mya, Yummy Bingham, Deemi, Dance Fusion, Kr3t’s and a plethora of others. Kim’s rise within the hip-hop with her unique, stand-out, lively performances would lead her to collaborate with some of the most prominent choreographers throughout entertainment including Laurieann Gibson, Brian “Footwork” Green, Rhapsody James, Eartha Robinson, Marjory Smarth, Ejoe Wilson, Mickey Davidson, Abdel Salaam, Ron Brown, Rennie Harris, to name a few, earning her the reputation and title as the “Josephine Baker of Hip-Hop.”
🎟️🎟️🎟️TICKET INFO IN BIO & www.bit.ly/hergarden
AUG 21 • 7PM • 21+ • @dromnyc
#WiseFruitNYC #WiseFruit #FeminineDivine #ArtMeetsActivism #BrindaGuhaPresents #KimHolmes #KimHolmesDance
HEADLINER 🌷 SOLES OF DUENDE @solesofduende • A Brooklyn-born Puerto-Rican from New Haven, a Mexican Puerto-Rican Jew from the Lower East Side, and a Bengali Indian from Jersey walked on to the wooden floor & the rest? History. Bonded by their deep love of music, their crafts, and true connection, Bessie-nominated Soles of Duende is on a lifelong mission to elevate the joy and music of true collaboration across disciplines and the celebration of the forms they practice. Based in the sounds of Tap (Amanda Castro), Flamenco (Arielle Rosales) and Kathak (Brinda Guha), Soles of Duende’s fire is the spirit that lives within each of these women to celebrate their connection given their beautiful differences and to uplift the forms that made them.
Featuring:
@acastrodance @ariellerosales @brindaguha 💃🏽
&
@ryantheartkitect on trumpet 🎺
@okaimusik on percussion
@jkingson101 on guitar 🎸
🎟️🎟️🎟️TIX IN BIO & www.bit.ly/hergarden.
AUG 21 • 7PM • 21+ • @dromnyc
#WiseFruit #WiseFruitNYC #ArtMeetsActivism #FeminineDivine #BrindaGuhaPresents #SolesOfDuende #LadiesInPercussion #PercussiveDance #Trio
HEADLINER 🌷 ESRAA WARDA @wardadance • is an emerging touring dance artist and educator hailing from Brooklyn, New York, specializing in traditional North African feminine form dance with a particular focus on Algerian dance(s). As a child of the Algerian diaspora, starting her dance journey at age 13, Warda advocates for the representation and preservation of North African women-led dance traditions while challenging euro-centricity, orientalism, and patriarchy in the dance world.
Her innovative pedagogies have garnered recognition from esteemed publications such as the New York Times, VOGUE Arabia, and The Metric, and even earned her a nomination as one of BBC’s 100 Women in 2022. Warda’s performances and teachings have graced prestigious venues in the US and around the world such as Lincoln Center, Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, Old Town School of Folk Music, OXY Arts, Georgetown University, New York University, The Movement Lab at Barnard College, Rich Mix, Mosaic Rooms, and the University of Ottawa, and she has even been featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk Meets Global Fest.
She cherishes the wisdom of female elders, the “chiekhat” of tradition, especially in Algerian Rai, which she cultivates through her mentorship with the legendary 80-year-old Cheikha Rabia, after studying 6 years under Morocco’s Khadija el Warzazia, leader of Marrakech’s “Bnat el Houariyat”. Her teaching approach is described as a “popular format,” which harmonizes the essence and aesthetic of informal dance education (learning from the living room, weddings, etc.) while simultaneously systemizing a dance vocabulary in Algerian dance.
🎟️🎟️🎟️TICKET INFO IN BIO & www.bit.ly/hergarden
AUG 21 • 7PM • 21+ • @dromnyc
#WiseFruitNYC #WiseFruit #FeminineDivine #ArtMeetsActivism #BrindaGuhaPresents #EsraaWarda #AlgerianDance
HEADLINER 🌷 SEKOU MCMILLER @sekouinsta • Pioneering at the forefront of a new movement in Afro Latin dance, Sekou’s unique fusion style has a strong Afro-Caribbean essence that is laced with many different dance techniques combined with an explosive energy. His dancing and choreographies have garnered him broad recognition worldwide. Sekou’s diverse career as a Choreographer / Performer / Instructor ranges from performing off-Broadway in both Celia: the Musical and Afro-Tango to choreographing for Bravo TV, NUVO TV and Good Morning America. Also he has performed and choreographed for Top Latin artists including Gilberto Santa Rosa, Willie Colon, Ismael Miranda, Cheo Feliciano, Johnny Pacheco, Tito Rojas, Tito Nieves, PitBull, as well as the pop icon Madonna. Sekou can be seen in the upcoming Warner Bros theatrical feature “In the Heights” (2021) directed by Jon M. Chu and in the newly release documentary “Uprooted: the journey of Jazz Dance”. Sekou was recently awarded the following choreographic residencies: The Alvin Ailey Foundation’s New Directions Choreography Lab for Winter/Spring 2017 hosted by Robert Battle and The Ailey School and the City University of New York (CUNY) Dance Initiative residency at Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture at Hostos Community College in winter/spring 2017. Both residency served to continue developing a entitled “I’m-Pulse: an Afro Latin Jazz and Soul Experience”. A work set to explore the rich history of collaborations between the African- American and Afro Latin Caribbean cultures and how these fusion helped to shape and forever change the landscape of American dance and music.
🎟️🎟️🎟️TIX IN BIO & www.bit.ly/hergarden.
AUG 21 • 7PM • 21+ • @dromnyc
#WiseFruit #WiseFruitNYC #ArtMeetsActivism #FeminineDivine #BrindaGuhaPresents #SekouMcMiller #SekouMcMillerChoreography
HEADLINER 🌷 Sun Kim @sunkimdance • Sun Kim is a distinguished dancer, choreographer, artistic director, and dance educator. Hailing from South Korea, she specializes in Popping – a style of street dance in which she finds strength and freedom to speak her truth. Most recently, she has been honored with the 2022 Emerging Artist Award at Harlem Stage Gala and was nominated at the 2022 Bessie Awards for Outstanding Breakout Choreographer.
Sun’s passion for dance began at a young age. When she was 12 years old, she started learning Breaking and Popping. She quickly fell in love with the art form and knew that she wanted to pursue it professionally. After training for 10 years, she moved to NYC in 2011. Since then, she has achieved many accomplishments, such as winning Step Ya Game Up world final Popping battle, making it to the top 8 at UK B-Boy championship world final as the USA Popping representative, and performing for Cirque Du Soleil. Additionally, Sun Kim has taught at various institutions such as Princeton University, Broadway Dance Center, Peridance Center, and Kookmin University in South Korea.
Rather than staying in her comfort zone, she continues to challenge herself in different industries such as commercial jobs for Madonna, Elton John, Phish, Nike, McDonald’s, Golden Goose, and Gap, and also in the theater industry, she presented her own work for Burning Man at Sotheby’s, Harlem Stage, Breakin’ Convention, Jacob’s Pillow, New Victory Theater, and Mark Morris.
This breadth of experience has allowed her to develop a unique perspective and approach to directing and teaching that has established her own dance company, Sun Kim Dance Theatre (SKDT). SKDT has been performed at LayeRhythm/Works & Process Guggenheim with New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, MOPTOP Anniversary, San Francisco International Hip Hop Dance Festival, Ladies of Hip Hop Festival, Dance Parade NYC and Choreographer’s Carnival.
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LIVE COLLABORATIONS • One of the most beautiful aspects of Wise Fruit is to see two people who may or may not have ever met without this moment, create something magical and plant a seed together live for the audience to enjoy and dream about what’s possible when art meets activism. Like Alicia Garza @chasinggarza says, changing your own mind about something can often be the first step. 🌷🌱🔆
Collaborating artists include:
🌱ANNETTE PHILIP @annette_philip (VOCALS)
🌱ROHAN MISRA @knightr0han (SARANGI)
🌱ALEX MITCHELL @alexxmitchelll (DANCE)
🌱YACOUBA SISSOKO @jacobdilli (KORA)
🌱REYNA NUNEZ @queeendelsol (DANCE)
🌱SHANNON YU @hsiangru.yu (DANCE)
TICKETS ON SALE 🎟️ LINK IN BIO, or at
bit.ly/hergarden 🌷 See you August 21 7PM doors
#ArtMeetsActivism #FeminineDivine #WiseFruit #LiveCo llaborations
MEET WISE FRUIT NYC 11.0: Her Garden’s HOST 🌷
IANNE FIELDS STEWART @thefreeactorvist (Pronouns she/her/they/them) is a black, queer, and transfeminine New York-based storyteller working at the intersection of theatre and activism. ☀️ Featured on Good Morning America, The Grio, Humanity in Action, Dash & Lilly, Pose, and other initiatives and projects, their work and she are dedicated to interrupting the exclusivity of luxury by making things like entertainment, nourishment, and self care accessible to the most marginalized in their community. In a world that is constantly traumatizing Black bodies she believes that Black queer and trans people should have the space and time to center collective emotional, physical, and sensual pleasure.
TIX 🎟️ at bit.ly/hergarden ⭕️ Join us August 21, 7PM at @drom, and be led by Ianne to the #FeminineDivine 🌱 Headliners have been announced, Live Collaboration Series up next.
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