Taisha Paggett
dancer/collaborator
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Taisha Paggett is a Los Angeles/Chicago based dance-artist and co-founder of the dance journal project itch. Her work and collaborations for the stage, gallery and public sphere have been presented locally, nationally and internationally.
She holds a BA in Art History from UC Santa Cruz where she studied dance under the late Mel Wong, Sylvia Martins, Connie Kreemer and performed with Moving and Storage Performance/Crash, Burn and Die Dance Company. Her movement training continued in the downtown dance community of New York City where she danced with Esteban Cardenas, Kraig Patterson/bopi’s black sheep, the Stanley Love Performance Group and Fiona Dolenga Marcotty.
Taisha returned to California and received an MFA in choreography from UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Culture. In the most recent years Taisha has worked extensively in, toured with and made significant creative contributions to the projects of Victoria Marks, David Roussève, Cid Pearlman, Cheng-Chieh Yu, Baker-Tarpaga Projects, Kelly Nipper, Rebecca Alson-Milkman and Meg Wolfe. She has also worked as a choreographic assistant to Yvonne Rainer in the development of Agon (2005) and with Barak Marshall in the development of Rooster (2009). Taisha was nominated for a Leston Horton award for her performance in Saudade by David Roussève. Most recently she has also work with Ishmael Houston-Jones, Modern Garage Movement and Neil Greenberg in the development of his work (like a vase).
Taisha’s ongoing collaborative project with visual artist Ashley Hunt, “On movement, thought and politics,” has taken form as workshop, performance, video and sound installation and has been supported by Crazy Space Gallery (Santa Monica), Sea And Space Explorations (Highland Park), BAK (The Netherlands), The New School (NYC), San Francisco Art Institute, and the Garment Workers Center in downtown Los Angeles. It was also granted funding from the Durfee Foundation.
A member of audio-action collective Ultra-red since 2006, Taisha has contributed to most recent projects which have been presented and supported by the Fowler Art Museum (Los Angeles), KZNSA Gallery (Durbin, South Africa), Raven Row (London) and the Chicago Art Institute.
Her most recent solo durational projects include, “Decomposition of a continuous whole” (for Artist Curated Projects), “Decomposition of a color-thought” (for Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) and “Untitled: Grayscale”(Torrance Art Museum). She currently is a full-time visiting lecturer in dance at Columbia College in Chicago.
dancer/collaborator
small variations
Taisha Paggett is a Los Angeles/Chicago based dance-artist and co-founder of the dance journal project itch. Her work and collaborations for the stage, gallery and public sphere have been presented locally, nationally and internationally.
She holds a BA in Art History from UC Santa Cruz where she studied dance under the late Mel Wong, Sylvia Martins, Connie Kreemer and performed with Moving and Storage Performance/Crash, Burn and Die Dance Company. Her movement training continued in the downtown dance community of New York City where she danced with Esteban Cardenas, Kraig Patterson/bopi’s black sheep, the Stanley Love Performance Group and Fiona Dolenga Marcotty.
Taisha returned to California and received an MFA in choreography from UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Culture. In the most recent years Taisha has worked extensively in, toured with and made significant creative contributions to the projects of Victoria Marks, David Roussève, Cid Pearlman, Cheng-Chieh Yu, Baker-Tarpaga Projects, Kelly Nipper, Rebecca Alson-Milkman and Meg Wolfe. She has also worked as a choreographic assistant to Yvonne Rainer in the development of Agon (2005) and with Barak Marshall in the development of Rooster (2009). Taisha was nominated for a Leston Horton award for her performance in Saudade by David Roussève. Most recently she has also work with Ishmael Houston-Jones, Modern Garage Movement and Neil Greenberg in the development of his work (like a vase).
Taisha’s ongoing collaborative project with visual artist Ashley Hunt, “On movement, thought and politics,” has taken form as workshop, performance, video and sound installation and has been supported by Crazy Space Gallery (Santa Monica), Sea And Space Explorations (Highland Park), BAK (The Netherlands), The New School (NYC), San Francisco Art Institute, and the Garment Workers Center in downtown Los Angeles. It was also granted funding from the Durfee Foundation.
A member of audio-action collective Ultra-red since 2006, Taisha has contributed to most recent projects which have been presented and supported by the Fowler Art Museum (Los Angeles), KZNSA Gallery (Durbin, South Africa), Raven Row (London) and the Chicago Art Institute.
Her most recent solo durational projects include, “Decomposition of a continuous whole” (for Artist Curated Projects), “Decomposition of a color-thought” (for Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) and “Untitled: Grayscale”(Torrance Art Museum). She currently is a full-time visiting lecturer in dance at Columbia College in Chicago.