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Eboni Senai Hawkins
Eboni Senai Hawkins is the Founder/Creator of see. think. dance.
After exploring various opportunities in arts administration (Jacob's Pillow Dance, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Alonzo King's LINES Ballet), she decided to take a leap of faith and start 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 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 formed see. think. dance. to produce "Truth + Beauty" (Nov 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.
The see. think. dance. audience expanded dramatically in 2009.
In January, Eboni stepped from behind the scenes a bit to experiment with dance on film as a dancer in the butoh-inspired film short "Water Burns Sun" and as a director/producer of "Once/Twice", a musically-driven short exploring the gestures of a woman becoming unraveled.
In February, see. think. dance. collaborated with Motif Performance Group to produce the second performative installment of The Intimacy Project, entitled "Interludes to Intimacy" which premiered at the Black Choreographers' Festival 2009. "Interludes to Intimacy" was invited to present at the 24th Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference at the of University of California-Berkeley as an exploration of the theme, "Revolutionary Love: from "me" to "we, Redefining Inacy and Activism"
For the 2009-2010 year, Eboni and see. think. dance. are driven to engage a broader community even more deeply. DANCEfirst! is an ongoing collaboration with the Museum of the African Diaspora to increase access to dance and movement grounded in an African aesthetic for the larger community. Upcoming partnerships with SF Noir and BeyondJazz are poised to highlight the inseparable connection between music and movement through a series of programs targeted to web-savvy, music connoisseurs.
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