We Dance: An Exploration of Movement, Foodways and Environments

From the world-renowned Wideman Davis Dance Company and award-winning filmmakers Ethan Payne and Brian Foster, "We Dance" is a love story, deconstructed and distilled into its most elemental ingredients. Dreams. Memories. Family. Environments. In this 12 minute film screening on Thursday, Feb. 17, Tanya Wideman-Davis and Thaddeus Davis, co-directors of Wideman Davis Dance and associate professors in the departments of theatre and dance plus of African-American Studies at the University of South Carolina, journey from Chicago, Montgomery and New York to the point where their lives meet and become one. Along the way, they honor and signify on Black American art, poetry and literature. In this conversation with Sarah Clunis, director of academic partnerships and curator of African collections at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, they will discuss the film and delve into the importance of movement and migration to Black American identity, lived experience and consciousness. They show how human stories are kept—in places, food and dreams.

This free, virtual event is presented by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture in collaboration with the Theater, Dance & Media Program at Harvard University.