EXPLORE

Background: Reggie Wilson performing at the Church of the Advocate with Fist and Heel

THE FILM & PERFORMANCE

GROUNDS THAT SHOUT!…and others merely shaking is a film documentary of the 2019 dance project, curated by Reggie Wilson with choreography created by Fist and Heel Performance Group. This project featured eight Philly choreographers and dance groups at three historic churches in Philadelphia (St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Old Pine Street Church, and Mother Bethel A.M.E. church) and the spaces between them. 
Directed and produced by Gordon Divine Asaah, and executive produced by Deborah Thomas and the Center for Experimental Ethnography,  GROUNDS  THAT SHOUT! takes viewers on a journey into Wilson’s curatorial process, one that explores the cultural encounters between particular artists and particular spaces of worship.

Curated by award-winning choreographer Reggie Wilson, Grounds that Shout! (and others merely shaking) was a series of performances that respond to the layered histories of Philadelphia’s religious spaces through contemporary dance performances that addressed religion and movement as well as sacred African American practices,  the body, and worship experiences. 
DIRECTED
by Gordon Divine Asaah

PRODUCED
by Deborah Thomas and Gordon Divine Asaah

WRITTEN FOR THE SCREEN
​by Gordone Divine Asaah and Reggie Wilson
EXECUTIVE PRODUCED
​by Deborah Thomas and by
​ The Center for Experimental Ethnography in collaboration with CAMRA 
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CURATED 
​by Reggie Wilson