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HATTIE MAE WILLIAMS
Modern Contemporary
April 15 | 10:30AM–11:45AM
HATTIE MAE WILLIAMS
Hattie Mae Williams is a Mother, holder of space, director, energetic voice, teacher, and wild woman, who received her B.F.A from The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater/Fordham University program and her Masters from Goddard University in Interdisciplinary Arts. In 2003 she established her dance company The Tattooed Ballerinas, in NYC, which formed roots in site-specific dance. Hattie Mae’s studies and community collaborations are inspired by embodied experiences, art as political, disrupting the mundane, and African Diaspora folklore and spirituality. She has worked in many professional atmospheres along her career such as Movement Director for full-length films in L.A and theater productions in Kentucky, London, Washington D.C., and NYC.
Hattie has also taught in various universities such as Alvin Ailey, Nova, Barry University, and Miami Dade Kendall Campus. Her work has traveled nationally and internationally to Holland, Italy, London, Los Angeles, New York, Kentucky, and Miami. Williams is full of gratitude to have danced professionally with The Kevin Wynn Collection, The Francesca Harper Project, Joanna Mendel Shaw’s Equus dancing with horses project, Edisa Weeks, and Nickelodeon. Hattie’s connection with discovering ways to document film, create oral histories, and preserve social political moments in this lifetime.
Modern Contemporary Dance Uptown & Downtown
Modern Contemporary dance class that fuses Horton Technique, flow, rebound, and movement signatures from The Kevin Wynn technique. This class stimulates your body, brain, and spirit. Be ready to move fast within your technique and with joy.
Even though my work emanates from a strong African American sensibility, incorporating dynamic rhythm and energy changes, improvisational moorings and polyrhythmic intricacies, it also operates from a more formalist, pure dance compositional aesthetic. Much of its dynamism and energy is born from the fusing of these two traditions.
— Kevin Wynn