Hope Boykin had her breakout stint with Joan Myers Brown’s PHILADANCO and 20 years with AAADT where she commanded the stage.
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Even COVID did not slow her down. While the world was on lockdown, Boykin won a grant from the Mellon Foundation for her own COVID-safe residency #BoykinBubble and in the fall of 2021 premiered a full evening of her choreography, “An Evening of Hope” at 92nd Street Y to much acclaim.
“All of those states are slivers or parts of me, and each needs the others to survive,” Boykin says, highlighting the question at the heart of the work. “Since they all live inside me, how do we move forward?” she asks of these seemingly warring tendencies. Answering her own question, Boykin adds, “The only way for me to move forward is for each of those parts of me to trust each other.” Call it the portrait of the artist as a Black woman.
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