Anicka Austin in "Green"
Black is the Body: A Color Guide to Coping, 2021
Directed and performed by Anicka Austin | Original composition by Chris Gravely
Black is the Body: A Color Guide to Coping (2021) is a series of short instructional videos. Each video follows a solitary woman performing somatic movements and resting in color-saturated landscapes. For the woman, Green is a forest ritual based on years of witnessing communion in the Primitive Baptist church. Narration guides viewers in practicing meditation and resting in stillness, while telling the woman's story. Green runtime: 3 minutes 37 seconds
Rebekah Pleasant- Patterson and Indya Childs, still from Birth of Pleasure
Indya Childs, still from Birth of Pleasure
Birth of Pleasure preview
Birth of Pleasure, 2019
Featured in Issue 02 of DIY Dancer magazine, 2019
Southern Movements at the Indie Grits Festival in Columbia, S.C., 2020
Roxbury Film Festival in Boston, M.A, 2020
Carrboro Film Festival in South Carolina, 2020.
An Official Selection of the BLOWUP: International Arthouse FILM FEST in Chicago, IL., 2020
Performances by Ruchi Ahuja, Sharon Carelock, Indya Childs, Jennifer Clark, Bella Dorado, Miriam Golomb, Christina Kelly, Rebekah Pleasant, Hez Stalcup | Original compositions by Chris Gravely and Saira Raza | Director of Photography: Amber Bournett, Art Director: Xenia Simos, Assistant Directors: Naomi Mack and Hope Leigh
Birth of Pleasure is the narrative film adaptation of the live dance work, sanctuaries and fortresses. Directed by Lev Omelchenko and Anicka Austin, the film and live work were part of a year-long project called “sunday morning at 7”.
Bella Dorado by Alan Kimara Dixon
The Nylon Tights are Pink, 2018
Movement performance and wordsmithery by Bella Dorado | Live music by Chris Gravely and Anicka Austin | Choreography and installation of dangerous and sensual objects by Anicka Austin
Curated by Meredith Kooi
Amanda Bonilla and Bella Dorado by Anicka Austin
Jennifer Clark by Anicka Austin
Kamali Hill, PhaeMonae and Anicka Austin with beauty ritual installation materials added by Kamali and Phae, documented by Lev Omelchenko
a lineage//evolving installation, performance and archive of coping methods, 2018
An installation of physical movement and personal objects accumulated over the course of a month at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (Atlanta). Performed by Kamali Hill, PhaeMonae & Anicka Austin | Melissa Word | Bella Dorado & Amanda Bonilla | Jennifer Clark
Curated by Iman Person as part of the WonderRoot Hughley Fellowship
Sharon Carelock, Rebekah Pleasant-Patterson and Indya Childs by Alan Kimara Dixon
Miriam Golomb, Sharon Carelock and Indya Childs by Alan Kimara Dixon
sanctuaries and fortresses, 2018
Performances by Ruchi Ahuja, Sharon Carelock, Indya Childs, Jennifer Clark, Bella Dorado, Miriam Golomb, Christina Kelly, Rebekah Pleasant, Hez Stalcup | Music by Chris Gravely and Saira Raza featuring Chrystel Bagrou and Steven Cervantes
sunday morning at 7 by Alan Kimara Dixon at The Work Room
Christina Kelly by Alan Kimara Dixon at The Work Room
Argha Noah preview by Brandon Pollack
sunday morning at 7, 2017-2018
Burnaway: Cupid and Psyche and Dance as Art Practice by CC Calloway, Feb. 14, 2018
sunday morning at 7 was a collective of artists from varied backgrounds and disciplines who met weekly for improvisational and choreographed movement experiments. From 2016 (project conception) to 2018, continued engagement with a broad range of co-creators was not only part of developing the work, it was also important for creating a transparent dance process. sunday morning at 7 performed at Argha Noah, Adult Swim studios (Bloodfeast), The Bakery Atlanta, The Work Room and in the mountains of North Carolina.
Bella Dorado and Shawn Evangelista by Alan Kimara Dixon
collage no. 1, 2015
Curated by Catherine Rush and Erik Thurmond for Gallery of Movement, 368 Ponce (Atlanta)
Performed by Bella Dorado and Shawn Evangelista