Taisha Paggett
(known professionally as taisha paggett
[1]
) is a
Los Angeles
?based
choreographer
and artist. paggett is a faculty member at
University of California, Riverside
in the Department of Dance.
[2]
She has experience working both onstage and in gallery settings. paggett was included in the 2014
Whitney Biennial
and Made in LA, the Hammer Museums biennial in 2018.
[3]
Education
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Born in
Fresno
, California, paggett received her BA in 2002 in art history from
UC Santa Cruz
and her MFA in 2008 in choreography from
UCLA
.
Career
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Paggett's 2013 performance?
verse chorus?
was a commissioned performance at
The Studio Museum in Harlem
for
perFOREmance
, a series of performances for the museum's 2012?2013 exhibition,
Fore
, that featured the work of artists of African descent.
verse chorus
both utilized and deconstructed
zumba
; paggett was drawn to the "instructional format" of zumba and pop culture's ability to create "a sense of shared knowledge."
[4]
paggett presented
underwaters (we is ready, we is ready)
at the 2014 Whitney Biennial. paggett's
underwaters
was intended to be "immersive" and involved paggett interacting with the space as four different characters during a period of five days. Each of paggett's characters had demographic differences; the details of these differences were not shared with viewers. paggett transitioned into the characters in front of viewers and let each persona speak for themselves, with paggett remaining silent. Ultimately, paggett aimed to create a space that was not confined by space and time and could engage both with viewers present and with "spirits and other nonpresent entities"
[5]
paggett has performed in multiple companies and group projects. As a dancer, paggett has worked with David Rousseve/Reality,
Meg Wolfe
, Stanley Love Performance Group, Fiona Dolenga-Marcotty, Vic Marks, Cid Pearlman, Cheng-Chieh Yu, Baker-Tarpaga Projects, Rebecca Alson-Milkman, Kelly Nipper, and
Ultra-red
. She has regularly collaborated with
Ashley Hunt
since 2004 on a project frequently called
On Movement, Thought and Politics,
including an exhibition at Sea and Space Explorations.
[6]
paggett was also a dancer in the 2006
Mike Kelley
film
Day is Done
.
paggett has performed and exhibited at
The Whitney
,
The Studio Museum in Harlem
,
The Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
,
Getty Villa
,
Cooper Union
,
Torrance Art Museum
,
Danspace
at
St Mark's Church
(New York); Defibrillator (Chicago); Commonwealth & Council,
Public Fiction
, and
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
, The Off Center (San Francisco), and Basis Voor Actuele Kunst (Utrecht, NL).
References
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- ^
Popp, Nancy (November 4, 2014).
"Taisha Paggett Emphasizes Experience"
.
Artillery Magazine
. Retrieved
August 23,
2021
.
- ^
"taisha paggett (She/They) - Associate Professor & Vice Chair - Department of Dance"
.
University of California, Riverside
. Retrieved
March 15,
2015
.
- ^
"Taisha Paggett"
.
The New Yorker
. Retrieved
March 15,
2015
.
- ^
Gwinn, Elizabeth (2012).
"The Studio Museum in Harlem announces perFOREmance: Highlighting new performative work from Fore"
(PDF)
.
The Studio Museum in Harlem
. Retrieved
August 26,
2018
.
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Coan, Jaime Shearn (2017).
"How to See Black Space in Total Whiteness: taisha paggett's underwaters (we is ready, we is ready) and the 2014 Whitney Biennial"
.
TDR/The Drama Review
.
61
(3): 72?93.
doi
:
10.1162/dram_a_00674
.
ISSN
1054-2043
.
S2CID
57570705
.
- ^
"taisha paggett, Artists' Resource for Completion, 2009 Fourth Quarter"
, Durfee Foundation.
External links
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- Official website
- Taisha paggett
at
IMDb
- "A Conversation with taisha paggett"
, Dancer's Turn, June 20, 2013.
- "Solos & Solitudes: Hilary Clark, Caroline Gravel and Taisha Paggett"
,
The New York Times
.
- "Yvonne Rainer Blasts Marina Abramovi? and MOCA LA"
, The Performance Club.
- Elizabeth Schwyzer,
"Then Again: New and Very New Dance from Southern California Choreographers"
,
Santa Barbara Independent
, August 10, 2006.
- Native Strategies
, No. 2 Winter-Spring 2012.