Paul Hamilton is a Jamaican-born Bessie-nominated dancer/choreographer who has collaborated with a wide range of choreographers. His longest ongoing collaboration, with Reggie Wilson Fist and Heel Performance Group since 2000, has yielded five original works: Black Burlesque (revisited) 2003, the Bessie-winning Big Brick 2004, The Good Dance dakar/brooklyn 2009, the duet 2012, and Moses(es) 2014. With Keely Garfield: Scent of Mental Love 2005, Telling the Bees 2013, Wow 2014, and Pow 2016. With National Medal of Arts winner Ralph Lemon: Scaffold Room and Chirus 2015. For the MoMA, he has restaged Bruce Nauman’s Wall Floor Position in the largest-ever retrospective of the artist’s work and performed in works by David Gordon and Deborah Hay. Other notable performances include two Bessie-winning productions—Jane Comfort’s 40th Anniversary Retrospective and David Thomson’s He his own mythical beast—and works by Melinda Ring and Neil Greenberg. He has toured and lectured internationally. His work as a choreographer was most recently seen in Kevin Beasley’s Sound of Morning, Performa 2021.
