Call & Response | Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group: The Reclamation
Reclamation, Photo Credit: Greg Kessler
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Performance residency: June 22-July 11, 2026. If you are interested in participating in the performance, please click here.
In The Reclamation, which premiered at NYU Skirball in New York City in April 2025, choreographer Reggie Wilson is reclaiming foundational ideas from his early gestural and “duet-ed” works and landing on provocative questions and surprises that respond to our current times. Wilson’s meticulous and rigorous kinesthetic reclamation process asks, What do you have? What do you keep? How do you make whatever’s left meaningful? And, ultimately, Is the reclamation of self necessary to build resilience?
The Reclamation is the fourth episode in an eleven-year relationship with Reggie Wilson and his company, Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group. The relationship is built around Wilson’s desire to maintain a creative presence in Milwaukee, the city of his birth and upbringing, as an essential part of his artistic practice. Working from a model we have developed with the choreographer, his company, and Lynden’s constituent communities, Wilson has been reimagining his company’s proscenium works for Lynden’s specific conditions and participants since 2015, when he joined Call & Response as a core artist: Moses(es), Citizen, and POWER. Wilson remakes each piece to traverse the grounds and to integrate his “second company,” the large intergenerational cast of local dancers and community members who participate in his residencies.
