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Spring 2022 Climate Justice Fellow Alicia Raquel Morales convenes a panel on navigating urban spaces, with fellow Bronx-based artists Alethea Pace and Kayla Hamilton.
A person in a white shirt with tousled brown hair looks over their shoulder at the camera, pouting slightly. They are pointing to an oval ornate white frame around the words "!Si no puedo parrear, no es mi Revolución!" in black script on dusky pink. The pointing arm has a tattoo of a snake.
Alicia Raquel Morales is a dancer, interdisciplinary artist, and cultural organizer. Her aesthetic is queer, quirky, “spanglish,” and working class. Alicia grew up building altars, listening to and making up stories that straddle "real" and unseen worlds, and watching formal and informal ritual work. She is a child of street dance. Alicia is a former Dancing Futures and Skylab artist in residence, and a current CulturePush Utopian Practice Fellow. Alicia has had the privilege and joy of dancing with Arthur Aviles Typical Theater, PISO Fénix, MBDance, RPG/André Zachary, K. Hamilton Productions, the NWA Project, and, currently, TRPNYC. Her current choreographic work, CROWNING, is an interactive scavenger hunt tracing city waterways back to the ocean. Rumor has it that she sometimes appears as Formerly Honest Malcriada, the titillating tomboi of burlesque, but these rumors are pure speculation and completely unconfirmed.
A woman with light brown skin, bright blue eyes, and curly black hair in three-quarter profile, visible from the shoulders up and wearing a black tank top, looks towards the camera. Behind her is a dark blue wall.
Alethea Pace is a Bronx-based multidisciplinary artist and a 2023-2025 Civic Practice Partnership Artist in Residence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A recipient of the 2021 Dance Magazine Harkness Promise Award, her first solo performance work, trying to sweep back the ocean with a broom, was created with support from Pepatian’s Open Call Residency and was performed at BAAD! (2016) and New York Live Arts (2017). Her second evening-length work, Bring Me Flowers, was developed with support from residencies including New York Live Arts’ Fresh Tracks, Dancing While Black, 92Y Harkness Dance and premiered at Pregones Theater in 2018. As a dancer, Alethea has performed with a variety of choreographers and was a member of Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre for eight years. She collaborated on numerous multimedia community-centered arts works including Angela’s Pulse and the Laundromat Project. She was awarded the BRIO award and CUNY Dance Initiative in 2019 and is currently BAAD!’s Muse Artist in Residence. Alethea trained at Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center in the Bronx. She has a BA in Urban Design from NYU where she completed her thesis project on the history of Bronx housing and an MFA in Digital and Interdisciplinary Arts from the City College of New York.
This is a black & white dance image of Kayla Hamilton, who is a dark brown-skinned Black woman. She is throwing her head back as her dreads flow with her as she pushes her arms outward. Her legs are wide and slightly bent. She is wearing jeans and a knee length cardigan that wraps around her thighs. Behind her are storefronts and cars parked on the street.]
Kayla Hamilton is a Texas born, Bronx based performance maker, dancer, educator and cultural consultant, Kayla is a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. Her past performance work has been presented at the Whitney Museum, Gibney, Performance Space New York, New York Live Arts and the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance. Kayla co- developed ‘Crip Movement Lab’ with fellow Disabled artist, Elisabeth Motley-a pedagogical framework centering cross-disability accessible movement practices that are open to every-body. She has taught dance at Sarah Lawrence College, Virginia Commonwealth University and University of Iowa. As a consultant, Kayla has developed and designed programming for disabled artists for the Mellon Foundation, Movement Research and The Shed. As a dancer, Kayla was part of the Bessie award winning skeleton architecture, she has also danced for Maria Bauman, Sydnie L. Mosley and Gesel Mason. Kayla is currently in the process of creating a future organization centering the work of BIPOC Disabled creatives and developing a new evening length performance set to premier in NY in 2024 (TBA).