The School for the Movement of the Technicolor People
The School for the Movement of the Technicolor People is a large-scale installation and performance platform that acts as a dance school. The School for the Movement of the Technicolor People responds to the limited positioning of Black and queer movers in the dance and art worlds amidst the evolving violence against Black bodies, gentrification, and the persistent erasure of communities of colour throughout history. This multidisciplinary platform is built from the dance company WXPT (We are the Paper, We are the Trees), which uses dance moves, protest forms, weight exchange, concealment strategies, and the everyday movement vocabularies of survival and celebration that structure Black and queer life. Heyward Bracey is a butoh influenced dancer/movement artist. Turay Turay is a performance artist and social justice advocate. Ashley Hunt is an image-maker, writer, and educator. Kim Zumpfe is an artist, educator, and sculptor. WXPT is an intentional community in the form of a dance company.