MasterClass with YaTande Whitney V. Hunter

MasterClass with YaTande Whitney V. Hunter

Open MasterClass to other students and open to the public to watch.

Live Drummer, Wesley Rast.

yaTande Whitney V. Hunter (he/him) is a Chicago-born artist-scholar committed to #cultureascatalyst, based in Philadelphia. His work centers around cultivating individual and communal spirit through dance-performance, education and curation. yaTande’s choreographic and performance work has been presented through Trinity Repertory Company, Kumble Theater, La Mama, Grace Exhibition Space, Panoply Performance Laboratory, Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival and in the streets of NYC, Chicago and Detroit.

Commissions and grants include: Performance Garage, Providence Arts, Culture and Tourism; New York State Council for the Arts; Puffin Foundation; Harlem Stages; Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center; Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival; Lumen Festival, and others. yaTande has worked with the companies of Martha Graham, Rod Rodgers, Reggie Wilson, Martha Clarke, Kankouran West African Dance Company, Najwa Dance Corps, and others.

He was a Movement Research Artist in Residence (2013-15), and was a founding member/curator of Social Health Performance Club. yaTande has taught nationally and internationally at Performance Garage, Peridance Center, Deeply Rooted Dance Theatre, Harlem School of the Arts, The Ailey School, Dance Institute of Washington, Centro Nacional de Danza Contemporánea (MX), LaGuardia High School, The Martha Graham School, and as an Adjunct Professor at Long Island University.

His academic degrees include: B.F.A in Theatre Arts/Dance (Howard University), M.F.A in New Media Arts and Performance (Long Island University), and Ph.D. in Philosophy, Art Theory and Aesthetics (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, 2013 David Driskell Fellow). yaTande currently serves as Assistant Professor of Dance and Coordinator of the African Diaspora Dance Series at Temple University.

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