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Helanius J Wilkins
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the mile series
Launched in 2021, this series is a FREE community event that honors and celebrates the Martin L. King Jr. holiday by creating a brave and courageous space to bring together intergenerational members of the Denver-metro area to reflect on stories that inform our sense of belonging and community today, and dreams for a better future. The Mile Series is hosted by and the result of a collaboration with RedLine Contemporary Arts Center in Denver, CO.
disrupting the erasure of
silenced
stories
tiny conversations on belonging
coming soon...
fall 2023 premiere
For tiny conversations on belonging, award-winning choreographer, educator and artivist Helanius J. Wilkins offers an intimate portal for conversations on belonging from multiple entry points and perspectives, and to illuminate how we are connected through shared stories. Wilkins will engage diverse resident members from across the U.S. as he travels for The Conversation Series: Stitching the Geopolitical Quilt to Re-Body Belonging.
FRAMEWORK, an evolving practice developed by Helanius J. Wilkins, is a rigorous practice that transforms technique class into a laboratory for examining, exploring, and discovering bodily movements in real time. Informed by architectural concepts, the joy of daring dance is experienced through the activity of framing and re-framing structures where individual and collective discoveries can be made. Structures, cued by action narratives that serve as a guide for participants, meld notions of space together with ways of communicating through the body.
FRAMEWORK, as a movement technique, is a viscerally charged ongoing practice, resembling a ritual that employs recovery through activity. Specific design, time, and effort modules are built resulting in choreographic phrases and expressions. By assembling structures for students to inhabit, the ultimate goal of FRAMEWORK is to question communication, refine technical ability and artistry, and interrogate one’s interior material. When fully committed to the rigors of the work, sensory engagement can be triggered bringing these architectural spaces to life.
Send inquiries to info@helaniusj.com for master classes and guest teaching residencies.
documentary shorts & behind-the-scenes content
FRAMEWORK, an evolving practice developed by Helanius J. Wilkins, is a rigorous practice that transforms technique class into a laboratory for examining, exploring, and discovering bodily movements in real time. Informed by architectural concepts, the joy of daring dance is experienced through the activity of framing and re-framing structures where individual and collective discoveries can be made. Structures, cued by action narratives that serve as a guide for participants, meld notions of space together with ways of communicating through the body.
FRAMEWORK, as a movement technique, is a viscerally charged ongoing practice, resembling a ritual that employs recovery through activity. Specific design, time, and effort modules are built resulting in choreographic phrases and expressions. By assembling structures for students to inhabit, the ultimate goal of FRAMEWORK is to question communication, refine technical ability and artistry, and interrogate one’s interior material. When fully committed to the rigors of the work, sensory engagement can be triggered bringing these architectural spaces to life.
Send inquiries to info@helaniusj.com for master classes and guest teaching residencies.