Artist Feature
The Cotton Series is a multimedia performance project created by Havanna Fisher, a graduate of both Parsons School of Design & Eugene Lang College. Using choreography, evocative costuming, and taped video interviews, the piece explores black women’s experience in the U.S., as well as their relationships with food, black men, family, community, love, and history. Thoughtful, unsparing, and yet full of hope, Havanna and her collaborators show the ways in which black women have had to exist in this country in the past and present, while still envisioning a brighter future. This performance took place at the Festival of New at The New School, on October 4, 2019, and was sponsored by the 400 Years of Inequality Project (http://www.400yearsofinequality.org). Performers: Havanna Fisher Diana Uribe Isabella Jackson Jean Wakati Mariama Noguera-Devers Na'ilah Harris
A short fashion film dealing with the acceptance of losing a loved one. A great fashion and dance collaborations between Parsons, Lang and SVA students and alumni.
Fashion Designer: Mannat Gupta
Film Director: Kriti Bisaria
Cinematographer: Ken Castaneda
Dancers: Havanna Fisher and Olivia Porter
"An experimental short with explores Blackness as it relates to white fragility"
Choreography & Performance: Havanna Fisher
Director: ASSI Johnson
Assistant Director: Carina Yard
Associate Producers: Vincent L Greer, MOMO Pixel Original Composition: Corey Carrington
Makeup: Julie Bakolia
Hair: Helene Marie
“The Cotton Series” is a collection of dance works that explores the facets of Black women living in America while maintaining an unbreakable sisterhood. 6 _____ Bodies is the first dance piece in the series.
“Birth of a Work-Force” seeks to uncover the many ways that Black women have had to perform labor in America. From having the responsibility of giving birth to America's primary free labor workforce for over 200 years to being the forgotten leaders of many labor rights movements in the USA. This work is the second installment of The Cotton Series.
"If we not laughing with you" is a piece that aims to explore Black Women and laughter and how the things we do to enjoy ourselves get reinterpreted and commodified in ways that don't represent the reality of who we are or deleting the visibility of Black women. This work is the third installment of The Cotton Series.