Where Is She Now? Paloma McGregor | INSPIRIT Alumna

INSPIRIT nurtures tomorrow's women in dance performance and choreography. Our blog series Where Is She Now? catches up with some of the fabulous women who have come through the company blossoming into brilliant artists.

Paloma McGregor has presented choreography
at venues throughout New York, including The Kitchen, Harlem Stage, EXIT Art, SummerStages, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Dixon Place and Bronx Academy of Art and Dance, as well as at UCLA, Yale University, The Dance Place in Washington, DC, the McKenna Museum in New Orleans, Cleveland Public Theatre and California Shakespeare Theater. She has toured internationally as a dancer with Urban Bush Women and Liz Lerman/Dance Exchange, and has collaborated with directors Patricia McGregor and Neigel Smith, multidisciplinary artists Mendi+Keith Obadike and musician Greg Tate.

She is co-founder of Angela's Pulse, which creates collaborative performance work rooted in building community and telling undertold stories. Among her awards: 2012-13 Arts Leadership Fellowship from the Kennedy Center's DeVos Institute; 2012-13 iLAND grant and creative residency; 2013 Wave Hill creative residency; 2012 Jerome Foundation Travel Grant; 2010 QuAD creative residency; 2010 Harlem Stage Fund for New Work grant from the Jerome Foundation; 2009 Voice & Vision creative residency.

Our one-on-one with Paloma
What was your favorite INSPIRIT repertory work to perform?
My favorite INSPIRIT work to perform was my solo from "Becoming..." It is a work that I learned in one rehearsal and performed just one month after moving to New York. The work tracked the development - physical and psychological - of a solo figure; it was a great practice to be attending to how someone "becomes" as I was becoming an artist in New York. Christal's luscious movement vocabulary was a pleasure to embody.

How did INSPIRIT prepare you to be where you are today?
INSPIRIT was a home space that both allowed me to grow and allowed me to take on responsibilities to help the organization grow. Christal Brown has created a place where women artists can unearth their potentials - as dancers, choreographers, teachers, designers, administrators; where women create their own place, supported by strong community, and thrive.
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Check out Blood Dazzler - Paloma's collaboration with director (and sister!) Patricia McGregor at Harlem Stage.

 

To keep up with Paloma's work check out her website AngelasPulse.org.