paris cyan cian
1996
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paris cyan cian is a New Orleans Black girl playing and composing with devotion and impermanence. As a movement architect, scholar, and curator working with and through various interdisciplinary forms of performance art, cyan’s creative work mobilizes embodied memory and ecological play into a worldmaking practice. she is concerned with notions of Black girlhood, spatiality, hurricanes, and duration. cyan cian received her BFA/BA in Dance with a concentration in social justice, gender women’s studies from Hollins University (2018) and MFA in Choreography at Roehampton University, London, U.K (2021).
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“It is the daily that will bring about the necessary shifts in perception that make change possible. Vision helps us remember why we do the work. Practice is the how; it makes the change and grounds the work.” - m. jacqui alexander