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2023 Princess Grace Foundation Award - WORKS IN PROGRESS RESIDENCY
“[Moby-Dick is] already one of the most audacious, exciting theatrical experiences to come along since Hamilton”
- Bob Verini for New York Stage Review
Moby-Dick - American Repertory Theater - Choreography by Chanel DaSilva - Photo by Evgenia Eliseeva
“As one of Joffrey’s 2020 Winning Works choreographers, the New York based artist is back with a dance interpretation and reimagining of the old Negro Spiritual, “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” accompanied by Zoe Keating.”
- Angel Idowu for WTTW
Swing Low - The Joffrey Ballet - Photo by Cheryl Mann
colōrem - The Joffrey Ballet - Photo by Cheryl Mann
T A B E R N A C L E - Dallas Black Dance Theater - Photo by Amitava Sarkar
“…It isn’t simply awareness that the production achieves; it challenges its audience members, creates enough of a tension between frivolity and terror to make them uncomfortable, as in the noose scene, or the plantation scene, which, DaSilva said, is meant to hold viewers accountable as witnesses to tragedy”
- Maya Phillips for The New Yorker
The Black Clown - American Repertory Theater - Choreography by Chanel DaSilva - Photo by Maggie Hall
- Ben Brantley for The New York Times
The Black Clown - American Repertory Theater - Photo by Maggie Hall
