Episode 89: Aerial Variations with Joanna Haigood

One of the original choreographers of aerial dance in the Bay Area, Joanna Haigood, talks about her influences growing up on the east coast and then moving to San Francisco (20:20). She expounds upon her fascination of architecture as an access point for telling the stories of place (24:00), highlighting the African American experience (31:00) and using her art as activism (37:20) Please won’t you be a Patreon?: http://www.patreon.com/theartistathlete This podcast is dedicated to CIRCUS. Aerialist, Shannon McKenna interviews guests from acrobats in Cirque du Soleil to circus therapists and everyone in between. Learn the backstage lives of those who flip, twist, sparkle, and shine under the big top. Find her online: www.theartistathlete.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/theartistathlete Instagram: www.instagram.com/the_artist_athlete/ Joanna's Company: http://www.zaccho.org/ instagram: @zacchosf References: Meredith Monk https://www.meredithmonk.org/ Martha Graham https://marthagraham.org Trisha Brown https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/arts/dance/trisha-brown-dead-modern-dance-choreographer.html W.E.B. Du Bois  https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dubois/ https://www.naacp.org/naacp-history-w-e-b-dubois/