Paloma McGregor (Co-Founder & Artistic Director, Angela’s Pulse) is a Caribbean-born, New York-based choreographer who makes Black work with Black folks for Black space. She is currently developing A’we deh ya, a multi-year, interdisciplinary performance project that activates a choreographic call-and-response between the US mainland and her homeland, St. Croix, a current US colony at the frontlines of climate emergency. A’we is the latest iteration of her project Building a Better Fishtrap, rooted in her father’s vanishing fishing tradition and three animating questions she’s asked since leaving her ancestral home: What do you take with you? Leave behind? Return to reclaim?
ID: An image of Paloma McGregor, a sand colored Black woman standing in a white dress with one hand near her heart and her other hand in the air. She balances a suitcase on her head. There are trees and a light blue sky surrounding her. Photo courtesy of the artist.