A2D2 Theatre

Nairobi, Kenya - 2023

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Alexandria Davis lectures for Serendipity Institute of Black Arts & Heritage

Let's Dance International Frontiers

Leicester, UK 2023

Exploring the Intersectionality of Movement and Belonging

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Dialogues

with The American Association of University Women-Florida

Fragments of Bone

An Evening of Dance, Memory,

and Myth-Making

Thursday | December 15, 2022 | 7:30 PM

The Carr Center Performance Studio

Robin Wilson, choreographer, teacher, performer, and founding member of Urban Bush Women, curates an evening of dance & performance.

"Dancing is how I breathe." - Robin Wilson

Ancestral Haiku

An Evening of Music, Movement,

Meditation and Poetry

Detroit jazz legend Marion Hayden and Legacy join forces with dance artists and U-M dance faculty Robin Wilson and Alexandria Davis to create an experience exploring. Black Ancestry, Reflection, and the Middle Passage. Fueled by the artwork and video installation of M. Saffell Gardner.

The University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance and the Center for World Performance Studies present Ancestral Haiku.

An interactive performance that takes the audience on an immersive experience through live original music, dance, video projection, and visual art installations—guided by the Haikus of Jazz poet/scholar Mursalata Muhammad and a few taken from the public domain.

ZORA on My Mind

Alexandria brings life to Key in Zora on My Mind, a jazz/blues chamber musical that writes the story of Key, a woman Zora would want to see.

Key, a fiercely independent and strong-minded Black woman, runs her businesses - a one-chair beauty shop and an inherited boarding house. When shoe shine salesman Malik rents a room in Key's place, the two change the story. Two female interlocutors, Sophie and Draft, want to author the character's journeys, but the spirit of Zora thrives.

The work is inspired by Zora Neale Hurston's essays"Characteristics of Negro Expression" and "How it Feels to be Colored Me.