Adam Horowitz & Paloma McGregor
2015 ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

Adam Horowitz is the Chief Instigator of the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture (USDAC). A “projectician” with a passion for cultural exchange and creative hootenanny, Adam has worked with numerous organizations at the intersection of arts, education, and social change—Ashoka, Bowery Arts + Science, The Future Project, among others—and traveled the world as a performer, musician, and researcher of intercultural barter. Adam was a Fulbright scholar in Colombia and is an Artist in Residence with the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

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Paloma McGregor is a choreographer, writer and organizer living in Harlem. An eclectic artist, she has structured improvisation for a floating platform in the Bronx River, choreographed an Afro-futurist pop opera at The Kitchen and devised a multidisciplinary performance work about food justice with three dozen community members and students at UC Berkeley.

A collaborator by nature and practice, Paloma has worked extensively with her sister, director Patricia McGregor, as well as with Niegel Smith, multidisciplinary artists Mendi+Keith Obadike and LaTasha Nevada Diggs, musician/cultural critic Greg Tate and environmental educator Damian Griffin.

Paloma is director of Angela's Pulse, which creates and produces collaborative performance work dedicated to building community and illuminating bold, new stories. Paloma’s work has been supported by grants and creative residencies from the Jerome Foundation; iLAND; Earthdance; Wave Hill; Voice & Vision; Dance Exchange; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; Foundation for Contemporary Art. Paloma is a 2014-15 Artist In Residence at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, where she will develop a solo iteration of her iterative performance project, Building A Better Fishtrap. The project, rooted in her 88-year-old father's vanishing fishing tradition, examines what we take with us, leave behind and return to reclaim.

Paloma has also been creating movement for theater, including productions of Spunkand A Winter's Tale (California Shakespeare Theater), A Civil War Christmas and Amadeus (Center Stage), the world-premiere of The House that Will Not Stand (Berkeley Repertory and Yale Repertory), and Brownsville Song (LCT3).

In addition to her creative work, Paloma has been developing Dancing While Black, an initiative that supports the diverse work of black dance artists by cultivating platforms for process, performance, dialogue and documentation. She does this work in partnership with like-minded institutions, including Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Urban Bush Women, MoCADA and NYU's Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, where she was a 2013 Artist in Residence. Paloma has also written about dance and civic engagement for Surdna Foundation and Americans for the Arts, as well as facilitated numerous workshops for organizations interested in the intersection of arts and activism.

Paloma toured internationally for six years as a dancer with Urban Bush Women, and continues to perform in her own work as well as project-based work with other choreographers, including Liz Lerman, Cassie Meador and Jill Sigman.

"Why I Dance" from Dance Magazine

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