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Whitney V. Hunter Interdisiciplinary Performance Artist, Choreographer

and Independent Curator Director, Whitney Hunter[MEDIUM]

www.whitneyhunter.com !!!

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Whitney V. Hunter, b.f.a., m.f.a. Interdisciplinary Performance Artist, Choreographer and Independent Curator

info@whitneyhunter.com . www.whitneyhunter.com ! !Education Ph. D. Philosophy, Art Theory and Aesthetics, Present, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts M.F.A. New Media Arts and Performance, 2009-2011, Long Island University (Brooklyn Campus) Certificate, Martha Graham Technique, 2001, Martha Graham Center for Contemporary Dance B.F.A. Theatre Arts/Dance, 1991-1997, Howard University !Curation 2014, Curatorial Advisor, Black Male Revisted…, Danspace Project, NY, NY 2013, inAction, Topaz Arts, Queens, NY 2013, Work/Space ’13, Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY 2012, SITE Project, Long Island University/Humanities Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2012, Work/Space #2, Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY 2012, Anita Sto: Everything Begins with and Object in the Real World, Broadway Gallery, NY, NY 2011, Work/Space, Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY !Solo Performance 2014, D.R.O.M.P., Black Male Revisited…, New York, NY 2013, Airing Dirty Laundry, Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival, New York, NY 2013, 1st American Shapist House for the Practice of Performance/Ritual, Dfbrl8r, Chicago, IL 2012, If I need your help, What would you do?, Performance Heart 2, Muchmore Café, Brooklyn, NY 2012, Reading to Beans and Hoping they Retain…, Fitness Center for Arts and Tactics,Brooklyn, NY 2012, Contest with the Chile, CENADAC, Queréaro, Mexico 2012, Digital Duets, LaMama/CultureHub, NY, NY 2012, An Execution, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY 2012, Pious Act #1, Itinerant Festival, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY 2011 & 2012, A Black-Eyed Proclamation, Online (u stream) 2011, Light. Dark. Action. THPAC / 35 in 5 Festival, Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts, Brooklyn, NY 2011, How to Make Hotwater Cornbread, Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts, Brooklyn, NY 2010, Libacion por Guillermina, Courtyard/CENADAC, Queréaro, Mexico 2010, Monument, BAAD! (Bronx Academy of Art and Dance), Bronx, NY 2010, Da Travla, Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts, Brooklyn, NY 2009, Harvey Cotenhead, IV, Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts, Brooklyn, NY !Concert Dance Present, Whitney Hunter[MEDIUM], Founder/Director/Performer 2000-2008, Hunter Performance Group (formerly HUNTERDance Theater), Founder/Artistic Director/Performer 2008, Dagmar Spain/Dance Imprints, Dancer 2003-2006, Martha Graham Dance Company, Dancer 2001-2002, Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre, Dancer 2000-2001, Rod Rodgers Dance Company, Dancer/Soloist 1999-2001, Coyote Dancers, Dancer/Soloist 1999, Pearl Lang Dance Theater, Dancer 1999-2001, Martha Graham Dance Ensemble, Dancer 1999-Present, Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Perf. Group, Company Member-at Large 1998-2000, Meftas Dance Theater, Dancer 1997, Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane Dance Company, Apprentice 1992-1998, Kankouran West African Dance. Company, Dancer/Soloist

1997, Doug Hamby Dance, Dancer 1996, Rennie Harris PureMovement, Guest Artist !Opera, Theatre and Film Chang in a Void Moon, Incubator Arts, New York, NY E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E (Experimental Opera), New York Live Arts, NY, NY The Medead (Theatre/Music), “The Four Fathers”, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY Angel Reapers (Theatre/Dance), “Moses”, American Dance Festival, Durham, NC Garden of Earthly Delights (Theatre), “Adam”, Minneta Lane Theatre, New York, NY Re: Turn (Film), “David”, Dagmar Spain (Dir.), New York, NY Orunmila (Theatre), “Ogun”/ Dance Captain, National Black Theatre, New York, NY Delusion Of the Fury (Movement Theatre), “Father, Ghost/Judge”, Japan Society, New York, NY Les Troyens (Opera), Dancer, Metropolitan Opera, New York, NY Only Heaven (Opera), Dancer, Connelley Theatre, New York, NY The Village I Knew (Theatre), “The Fiddler”, The Kitchen, New York, NY Daybreak at a Buddhist Monastery (Movement Theatre), Dancer, New Jesrsey Performing Arts Center Purlie (Musical Theatre), Dancer, Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. Jelly’s Last Jam (Musical Theatre), Dancer, Karamu House, Cleveland, OH Diamono (Theatre), Choreographer/Soloist, Publick Playhouse, Cheverly, MD Njinga, the Queen King (Theatre), “King”/”ancestor”, Elizabeth Theatre, Washington, D.C. In the Spirit (Film), Dancer, Images of Cultural Artistry, Washington, D.C. !Choreography 2013, Everything is up for grabs, Nothing is sacred, Movement Research (Judson Church), NY, NY 2013, El Umbral, ALETHEIA Cuerpo Escénico de Mexico, Querétaro, MX 2013, Open Palm, CENADAC, Querétaro, MX 2012, SITE, New York SummerStage, Brooklyn, NY 2011, a cautionary tail., NYU Graduate Acting, New York, NY 2011, The Persian Quarter, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Lowell, MA 2011, Finian’s Rainbow, Berkshire Theatre Festival (Unicorn Theatre), Stockbridge, MA 2009, Lil’ Sally, LIU (Faculty Concert), Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts, Brooklyn, NY 2008, The 11th Hour, Afternoons At LIU, Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts, Brooklyn, NY, 2008, The Othello Variations, HUNTERDance Theater, Kumble Theater, Brooklyn, NY 2007, Taking the Leap, HUNTERDance Theater, New York, NY 2007, Nina’s Pastoral, The Nest, Bucks County, PA 2007, Seul, Washington Reflections Dance Company, Washington, DC 2006, Bare, HUNTERDance Theater, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, New York, NY 2006, Solo for A Woman, HUNTERDance Theater, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, New York, NY 2006, Sankofa, Washington Reflections Dance Company, Washington, DC 2006, South Country, Washington Reflections Dance Company, Washington, DC 2005, Crossed, Washington Reflections Dance Company, Washington, DC 2004, Noises: Remembrances of Done Deeds, HUNTERDance Theater, Peridance Center, New York, NY 2003, Promise of Light, Howard University Dance Major Program, Washington, DC 2002, Enlisted, HUNTERDance Theater, Bucks County, PA 2001, In the Crevice of my Desire, HUNTERDance Theater, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, New York, NY !Exhibitions, Screenings, Design 2013, Get Art Here (Installation), Work/space ’13 (Group Show), Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY 2011, Legacy…Destiny (Digital Video Installation), Mediated Motion (Group Show), LaMaMa Galleria, NY 2011, Self-Portrait (Thesis Project), Long Island University (Solo Show), Brooklyn, NY 2011, Invisible #2 (Site Specific Video Installation) Work/space (Group Show), Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY 2010, Invisible (Interactive Video Installation) LIU / Humanities Gallery (Solo Show), Brooklyn, NY

!2010, And We Live Forever (Projection Design), Brooklyn, NY 2010, Whetting the Lily (Documentary), Restoration Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 2010, On My Way (Music Video), Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY 2010, Traveling/Poto Mitan (Interactive Video Installation), LIU Humanities Gallery (Group Show), Brooklyn, NY 2010, The Bather (Experimental Video), LIU / Big Mini DV Festival, Brooklyn, NY 2009, Middle Passage/Yonvalou (Experimental Video), Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY 2009, Self Portrait (Experimental Video), Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY !Costume Design 2009, Lil’ Sally, Hunter Performance Group, Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts 2008, The Othello Variations, Hunter Dance Theater, Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts 2007, Art Moves, The Nest 2006, Bare, Hunter Dance Theater 2006, Solo for A Woman, Hunter Dance Theater 2006, Sankofa, Wash. Reflections Dance Co. 2005, Crossed, Wash. Reflections Dance Co. 2005, Turnstyles, Dankmeyer Dance 2004, Noises: Remembrances of done deeds, HUNTERDance Theater 2004, Four Seasons (Summer and Fall), The Nest 2003, Promise of Light, Howard University 2002, Enlisted, HUNTERDance Theater 2001, In the Crevice of my Desire, HUNTERDance Theater !Instruction class. class. class. Guest Instructor, P.L.A.Y., New York, NY (2012) Key West Modern Dance, Artist in Residence, Choreography for the Camera, Key West, FL (2012) LIU, Adjunct Professor, Dance Technique and Performance Methods, Brooklyn, NY, (2008-Present) Centro Nacional De Danza Contemporanea, Guest Instructor, Dance Technique, Qro, Mexico, (2010-Pres.) Howard University Summer Intensive, Guest Instructor, Dance Technique, Wash., DC, (2001-Present) Deeply Rooted Summer, Guest Instructor, Dance Technique, Chicago, IL, (2010 & ’11) Ailey School, Guest Faculty, Dance Technique, NY, NY, (2007) Peridance Center, School Faculty, Dance Technique, NY, NY, (2007) Dance Institute of Washington, Guest Instructor, Dance Technique, Wash, D.C., (2005-2007) !Residencies, Commissions, Grants Movement Research - Artist in Residence (2013-2015) Career Transitions for Dancers - Osato Scholarship (2013) Puffin Foundation – Artist Grant (2011) Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center – New Work Commission (2011) Harlem Stages Fund for New Work – New Work Grant (2009) National Foundation for the Advancement In the Arts, Astral Career - Grant (2006) Career Transitions for Dancers - Support Grant (2003) !Workshops, Internship Alexander Technique, Shelley Senter, New York, NY (workshop) The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY (2011) (internship) Isadora Software, Ruth Sergel, LIU, Brooklyn, NY, (2009 & 2010) (workshop) Vocal, Richard Armstrong, New York, NY, (2009-2010) (workshop) Movement, Martha Clarke, New York, NY, (2005-2007) (workshop) !!!

!Publications / Periodicals / Online LaGaccia, David. “1st American Shapist…” http://incidentmag.com. 24 April, 2014

http://incidentmag.com/issue-1/interviews/1st-american-shapist-house-for-the-practice-of-performanceritual/.

Williamson, Kerwin, http://studiophoenix.blogspot.com/2013/07/q-whitney-hunter.html. 4, July, 2013 Vartanian, Hrag. “Images from the Third Week of the Brooklyn Int’l Performance Art Festival.” hyperallergic.com. 14, July 2013 http://hyperallergic.com/76113/images-from-the-third-week-of-the-brooklyn-intl-performance-art- festival/ Richardson, Whitney. “Artist in Motion.” Quipmag.com 20 Apr. 2013

http://www.quipmag.com/artist-in-motion-whitney-hunter-unearthing-humanity/ Hunter, Whitney V. “Self-Portrait: A Repository of Identity.” New York. 2012 Psyllos, Steven. "Fluid." Trace Magazine, New York. October. 2007: Issue 78. Deane, John and Nan Deane Cano. Acts of Light. University Press of Florida. 2006. Talley, Andre Leon. A. L. T. 365+. powerHouse Books. 2005 Vadukul, Max. “The New Yorkers. “ Vogue Hommes International. Paris. Fall/Winter 2005-2006. Hors-Series. Amoruso, Susan. “Decoding Martha: A Graham Technique Master Class.” Dance Spirit, New York. December. 1999 Chicago Defender, Staff Photographer, 1992 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!BIO !Whitney V. Hunter is a New York-based dance / performance, installation artist and independent curator from Chicago, IL. He creates and curates work for the stage, gallery, and alternative spaces, and directs his performance collective Whitney Hunter[MEDIUM]. Whitney has received a Puffin Foundation Grant (‘11), Harlem Stages - Fund for New Work Grant (’09), a new work(s) commission from Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center (’08 & ’11), National Foundation for the Advancement In the Arts Astral Career Grant (’06), and a Career Transitions for Dancers Support Grant (‘03), and in 2007 he was featured as one of Trace Magazine’s “7 NYC Dancers on the Rise”. He is presently a Movement Research 2013 Artist in Residence, and a Gallery 254 artist. !Recent Solo performance works include: Airing Dirty Laundry (with Andre M. Zacery), 1st American Shapist House…, Pious Act #1, Light. Dark. Action., et. al. !Exhibition works include: Legacy…Destiny (LaMama Galleria), Self-Portrait (Graduate Thesis, Long Island University), Invisible #2, a site-specific video (The Invisible Dog Art Center), Invisible (Long Island University’s Humanities Gallery). !Whitney has performed with the Martha Graham Dance Company from 2003 - 2006 after spending two years as a recipient of the 1999 Coca Cola Award of Artistic Excellence to the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and with the Martha Graham Dance Ensemble. Additionally, he has worked in the companies of Pearl Lang, Rod Rodgers, Pascal Rioult, Reggie Wilson, Dagmar Spain, Doug Hamby and with Kankouran West African Dance Company. !Additional stage credits: Angel Reapers by Martha Clarke and Alfred Uhry, Martha Clarke’s 2008 Garden of Earthly Delights (off-Broadway), Harry Partch’s Delusion of the Fury (The Japan Society), and at the Metropolitan Opera. !Whitney is the lead curator of the Work/Space group exhibition and Open Studios at The Invisible Dog Art Center, he has curated two solo shows of multimedia conceptual artist Anita Sto (Broadway Gallery, NYC), conceived and curated SITE Project (Long Island University/Humanities Gallery), and presently InAction: The Virtuosity of Presence (Long Island University/Resnick Gallery) !He has taught nationally and internationally at Peridance Center, the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, Harlem School of the Arts, The Ailey School, Dance Institute of Washington, and Centro Nacional de Danza Contemporánea (MX). Whitney has been on faculty at Long Island University’s Dance Program since 2008. He holds a BFA in Theatre Arts/Dance (Howard University), an MFA in New Media Arts and Performance (Long Island University) and is presently a David Driskell Ph.D. Fellow in Art Theory, Aesthetics and Philosophy at Institute for the Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA). http://whitneyhunter.com !!!!

!ARTIST STATEMENT !I am a Shapist.

I utilize art to re-contextualize existing social and cultural notions

I don't make the object; I make something of the object.

I question the function and purpose of art.

I have a genuine interest in hybrid forms and works that cross artistic boundaries, as I believe that

it is in this proposition that new forms arise.

I engage a variety of mediums (digital media, pigment, earth, and other mundane objects) in the

creation of my live and mediated performance and installation works.

I employ elemental modes that instigate, either physically or cognitively, interaction from the viewer.

The transformative potential of art interests me.

The process is my product.

I investigate my African American heritage, African diasporic identity, and spiritual practice.

I initiate myself.

My body is an “animate” object, material, and site.

I am a seeker and a wanderer in constant search of my primal identity.

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! !!Conceived in 2012, Whitney Hunter[MEDIUM] is a project-based performance collective focused

on the creation and presentation of original group works that integrate live performance and

mediated technologies. Whitney Hunter[MEDIUM] fosters collaborations with artists, performers,

and technologists of varying mediums with a collective mission towards communication through

experimentation.

photo: Everything is us for grabs, nothing is sacred, Judith Stuart

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!P.L.A.Y.… led by Whitney V. Hunter

A physical performance training which offers the participant an understanding of the body in action.

!P (Physics) – the natural science that deals with energy, motion, force L (Liveness) – To exist in a present moment in time A (Action) – The doing of a particular task over a period of time Y (You) – the self in relation to time, space, objects, and others !

Asks “how does one hone or become aware of his/her own technical and performance potential?”

Explores the body in relation to space and time in an effort to deepen the experience of the moment.

Employs kinesiology, improvisation, and composition as experiential and instructional modalities.

Proposes the appropriation of social play as a generative method and/or an organic form of performative action.

Is a practice in honesty, discovery, and experimentation. !why PLAY? Appropriates of social play as an organic form of performative action and/or generative method.

Photo: Miguel Anaya

!PRESS !“Hunter's D.R.O.M.P. offered me the clearest sense of forward movement--of breaking out and going somewhere of one's own choosing.” http://infinitebody.blogspot.com/2014/02/image-to-movement-kosokos-black-male.html “Image to movement: Kosoko's "Black Male Revisited" at Danspace Project” Eva Yaa Asantewaa February 10, 2014 !David Driskell 2013 Fellow http://news.idsva.org/whitney-hunter-on-being-named-the-david-driskell-fellow-2013/ !"Visually mesmerizing..." http://hyperallergic.com/76113/images-from-the-third-week-of-the-brooklyn-intl-performance-art-festival/ Brooklyn Int’l Performance Art Festival Hrag Vartanian July 23, 2013 !“the performance succeeded in adding dimension and significance…” http://www.quipmag.com/artist-in-motion-whitney-hunter-unearthing-humanity/ “Artist in Motion: Whitney Hunter Unearthing Humanity” Whitney Richardson April 20, 2013 !It was a remarkable performance…, filled with such power and feeling.  I'm glad I didn't miss this… http://www.studiophoenix.blogspot “SITE” Kerwin Williamson June 11, 2012 !“Whitney V. Hunter is more than a choreographer of movement. His work bravely explores the reaction between light and dark, movement and stillness, art and architecture. Images of expressionist artists Klein and Pollack are conveyed through his use of body paint and a large paper “canvas” mounted to the floor. !Hunter approached the work with an improvisational spirit, which gave the work an ephemeral, fleeting quality. This quality is one of the most endearing, and defining aspects of dance. His use of stillness was sculptural, this counterbalanced the architectural design and physical boundaries produced by the canvas. harlemworldblog.wordpress.com Walter’s World: Thirty5-In-5 Day Three Walter Rutledge June 23, 2011 !“The only dance that seems truly possessed with the Holy Spirit and ecstatic in the joyous sense…” “Whitney V. Hunter performs a tour de force solo… kicks his legs incredibly high “…a tour de force…” The Herald Sun “Angel Reapers” Riveting

Susan Broili July 13, 2010 !“Mr. Hunter has a compellingly rough and interior quality…” The New York Times “Entering and Exiting Myths at her Own Quiet Place” Jennifer Dunning March 1, 2008 !“Dynamic Dancer…” The New York Times Dreams (and Instruments) of a Visionary Tinkerer” Anthony Tommasini December 6, 2007 !“Mr. Hunter has a feel for interesting movement…” The Washington Times “Dance in the District” Jean Battey Lewis May 1, 2006 !“Solidly in the Graham Tradition” The Washington Post “Three Years old and kicking high” Lisa Traiger February 13, 2006 !“a great find…stunning dancers…” “Festivals, I love you but You’re Bringing me Down” Columbia Spectator Leslie Berman October 5, 2007 !“exuded emotional electricity” Exploredance.com Dr. Roberta Zlokower April, 17, 2005 !“solid, straightforward maleness” Danceview Times George Jackson !“breathtakingly distinct” Time Out / New York Gia Kourlis