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Dance Magazine

December 21, 2015
by Angelica Franklin

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Happy 100th Birthday, Nelson Mandela!!!💜✊🏿
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Honoring the legacy of Nelson Mandela in a hundred day countdown toward the 100th anniversary of his birth (July 18, 2018), The Black Iris Project presents, “100 FISTS”, a photo series documenting 100 Black dancers around New York City of varying ages, techniques, and stages of their careers. This work, a collaboration between choreographer Jeremy McQueen and photographer Melika Dez, pays homage to the courageous strength and achievements of MADIBA, a freedom fighter and trailblazer in Black political organizing.
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Produced by The Black Iris Project/Jeremy McQueen
Photography by Melika Dez

#BIP100Fists: Honoring Nelson Mandela
#1 - Jeremy McQueen (Artistic Director & Choreographer of The Black Iris Project )
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"It always seems impossible until it's done." ~Nelson Mandela
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Honoring the legacy of Nelson Mandela in a hundred day countdown toward the 100th anniversary of his birth (July 18, 2018), The Black Iris Project presents, “100 FISTS”, a photo series documenting 100 Black dancers around New York City of varying ages, techniques, and stages of their careers. This work, a collaboration between choreographer Jeremy McQueen and photographer Melika Dez, pays homage to the courageous strength and achievements of MADIBA, a freedom fighter and trailblazer in Black political organizing.
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Produced by The Black Iris Project/Jeremy McQueen
Photography by Melika Dez
Photographed in the Mandela Community Garden in Harlem, NY

#BIP100Fists: Honoring Nelson Mandela
#2 - Khalia Campbell (Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater)
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"In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his garden; he, too, plants seeds, and then watches, cultivates, and harvests the results. Like the gardener, a leader must take responsibility for what he cultivates; he must mind his work, try to repel enemies, preserve what can be preserved, and eliminate what cannot succeed." ~Nelson Mandela
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Honoring the legacy of Nelson Mandela in a hundred day countdown toward the 100th anniversary of his birth (July 18, 2018), The Black Iris Project presents, “100 FISTS”, a photo series documenting 100 Black dancers around New York City of varying ages, techniques, and stages of their careers. This work, a collaboration between choreographer Jeremy McQueen and photographer Melika Dez, pays homage to the courageous strength and achievements of MADIBA, a freedom fighter and trailblazer in Black political organizing.
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Produced by The Black Iris Project/Jeremy McQueen
Photography by Melika Dez

#BIP100Fists: Honoring Nelson Mandela
#3 - Kelly Marsh IV (Complexions Contemporary Ballet)
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"A garden was one of the few things in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it and then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom." ~Nelson Mandela
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Honoring the legacy of Nelson Mandela in a hundred day countdown toward the 100th anniversary of his birth (July 18, 2018), The Black Iris Project presents, “100 FISTS”, a photo series documenting 100 Black dancers around New York City of varying ages, techniques, and stages of their careers. This work, a collaboration between choreographer Jeremy McQueen and photographer Melika Dez, pays homage to the courageous strength and achievements of MADIBA, a freedom fighter and trailblazer in Black political organizing.
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Produced by The Black Iris Project/Jeremy McQueen
Photography by Melika Dez

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