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Eboni Senai Hawkins
Eboni Senai Hawkins
Eboni Senai Hawkins is the Producing Artistic Director of see. think. dance.
After valuable experiences in arts administration (Jacob's Pillow Dance, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Alonzo King's LINES Ballet), she took a leap of faith and started working directly with the art and artists she loved.
Inspired by the opportunity to present intimate performance in a low-pressure environment, Eboni curated a short program for the June 2007 Mission Arts Performance Project (MAPP) hosted by the Red Poppy Art House, featuring dancers Antoine Hunter and Rashad Pridgen.
The response from the primarily visual arts/music audience was overwhelming and in collaboration with Todd Brown and the Red Poppy's Street-Level Curating Program, Eboni established see. think. dance. to produce Truth + Beauty (November 2007), Word. Warrior. Music. Movement. (March 2008), and Urban Art Sessions (May 2008).
May 2008 also marked the formation of and the first performative installment by The Intimacy Project, an ongoing collaboration between artists/educators who draw creative inspiration from their connection to the African continent and are deeply invested in social change through the re-integration of the mind and the body.
In 2009, Eboni found comfort in the illusion of a smaller audience when filming dance in front of a camera and thrived in the REVIVE Workshop hosted by Kunst-Stoff, San Francisco Dance Center, and the San Francisco Art Institute. Through REVIVE, Eboni soaked up the intense experience of working with international media arts curator/producer, Talal Al-Muhanna and filmmaker Kenneth Long. During REVIVE, Eboni was invited by artist/scholar Petra Kupers to experiment with dance on film in the butoh-inspired short Water Burns Sun and directed, produced, and acted in Once/Twice, a musically-driven short exploring the gestures of a woman becoming unraveled.
Building on the impact of collective performance as part of The Intimacy Project, Eboni was invited to present work during the 24th Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference (EWOCC) at the of University of California-Berkeley. Working with long-time artistic collaborator, Rashad Pridgen, Eboni commissioned Interludes to Intimacy, a co-production between see. think. dance. and Pridgen’s Motif Performance Group. Premiering at the Black Choreographers Festival: Here and Now 2009, Interludes to Intimacy went on to earn accolades at the EWOCC and collect invitations from other universities.
Eboni started to think about how to continue commissioning work but in a way that kept the field open to emerging choreographers and invited audiences into the process. DANCEfirst!, a series presented in conjunction with the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), carved out space for performance artists in a highly visible environment. Working with eager audiences and artists both local and international, DANCEfirst! re-inforced Eboni’s drive to see dance happen in every space imaginable.
In 2010, heavily influenced by the REVIVE workshop, Eboni created the annual REflect film series as part of the Black Choreographers’ Festival: Here and Now. Subtitled “The Black Dancing Body on Film”, REflect mines the rich visual history of Black dancers and choreographers on film through a dynamic selection of documentaries, feature films, and shorts.
Drawn in by the compelling work of emerging dance-theater artists Sheena Johnson (USA) and Byb Chanel Bibene (FR/CG), Eboni made multi-year commitments as a means to expand the traditional notion of artist representation and engage community management models. Working alongside the artists to seek and create multiple points of access to their work, Eboni incorporates strategic visioning, logic modeling, and community building in addition to on- and off- line marketing.
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