POWER by Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group

Award-winning choreographer Reggie Wilson offers up a whirling, rhythmic, exalted expression of Black Shaker worship through music and movement.

Did you know there was a Shaker community led by a free Black woman in Philadelphia in 1859? Folding his research of Shakers into this history, Wilson gives his perspective on what the community of Mother Rebecca Cox Jackson may have looked like.

Throughout his career, Wilson has sought out the varied histories and spiritual practices of Africa and its diaspora to develop his own personal movement style, which he sometimes calls “post-African/Neo-HooDoo modern dance.”

Returning to FringeArts, Wilson and the Fist and Heel Performance Group offer audiences a simple gift: a powerful reflection on Black Shakers’ practices.

“Wilson’s poetic work often has historical resonance.” — The New York Times