2021, Lenora Lee Dance, Convergent Waves

Convergent Waves is a new site-responsive, multimedia experience by Lenora Lee Dance celebrating the contributions of activists and non-profit leaders, reclaiming space by eliciting stories of community agency, resilience and transformation. Inspired by rich narrative, this work represents a powerful call for community oriented development in the face of rapid change, making a collective statement for the preservation of community as neighborhoods across the country inhabited for generations face cultural erosion, loss of businesses, and displacement through gentrification. Convergent Waves highlights successes in preserving the cultural fabric and accomplishments of these communities.

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Upcoming residency events with Lenora Lee Dance

Meditations on the Power of Community presented by Isabella Stewart Gardner, Pao Arts Center, and Lenora Lee Dance.

Screening and Panel: Meditations on the Power of Community, May 11, 6:00 pm.

The mission of Lenora Lee Dance (LLD) is to create and present large-scale multimedia performance works integrating dance, original music, video projection, text and installation that connect various styles of movement and music to culture, history and human rights issues.

Lenora Lee (artistic director) has been a dancer, choreographer, and artistic director in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York. She has been pushing the envelope of large-scale, site-responsive, immersive, and multimedia dance performance that connects various styles of movement and music to culture, history, and human rights issues, inspired by individual stories as well as community strength. Lenora’s work integrates contemporary dance, film, music, text, and research, and has gained increasing attention for its sustained pursuit of issues related to immigration, global conflict, incarceration. It has grown to encompass the creation, presentation, and screening of films, museum and gallery installations, civic engagement, and educational programming. She has been an Artist Fellow at the de Young Museum, a Djerassi Resident Artist, a Visiting Scholar at New York University through the Asian/Pacific/American Institute, and Artist in Residence at Dance Mission Theater. Lenora is a 2019 United States Artists Fellow, an artist in residence at Arts Emerson, and her company LLD is a recipient of the 2021 New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project Production Grant.

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This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Convergent Waves was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.