There's something thoughtfully impulsive about Adia Tamar Whitaker, the gifted young choreographer whose Afro-Haitian-inspired work has been making appearances all over the Bay Area this season. Fervid and muscular, Whitaker's works reveal the vitality and quirky humor that you see in the woman as soon as she sweeps into the room.An alumna of San Francisco State University - where she rediscovered a love for dance, inspired by teachers like Albirda Rose and the late Alicia Pierce - Whitaker has since established her own company, Ase Dance Theater Collective in Brooklyn. Still, she is seemingly all over the Bay Area, at CounterPulse's Performing Diaspora Festival last fall and the Black Choreographers Festival in February. Now Whitaker returns to her alma mater to premiere 'Ezili Freda' with the University Dance Theater this weekend at the McKenna Theater.
Sitting down at the Dance Mission studios, only hours before the Black Choreographer's Festival performance, the slender, energetic Whitaker talks identity politics, tradition and love.
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