This creative development residency is the first part of two D.C. visits centering the engagement of D.C.-metro area community members through Wilkins’s latest work The Conversation Series: Stitching the Geopolitical Quilt to Re-Body Belonging.

TLDR engages with the current socio-cultural climate and explores the levels of consciousness, healing, hiding, and coping that technology provides.

COMMIT! is an interactive performance in which a performer (me) falls repeatedly, throwing myself on the ground trying to execute the most “committed” fall that I possibly can.

PURPLE is a multi-project universe that illuminates the power of deep sisterhood for social change through storytelling and movement.

Black Madonna and Miss America is an investigation of socio-political happenings in conversation with the positioning of the Black female icon in public and private spheres-in the church, on the stage and in the streets.

That our lives are shifted by one another, subtly and profoundly, is the big concern of “All Tomorrow’s Parties."

The Spring Youth Performance Showcase celebrates the work of our youth from Dance Place’s various educational programs.

Join us for a week of dance, music, and tradition during our 37th annual DanceAfrica DC festival.

Beauty Happens is an hour long work which explores a spectrum of intimacy and resilience through sight, touch, sound, and relentless physicality.

Ghost Bride features extraordinary scenic, lighting, sound, costuming and projection to depict the overpowering spell and eternal pain of unwanted destiny.