Hattie Mae Williams-The Tattooed Ballerinas

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http://themiamisitesminiseries.com/

An ongoing web series of guerrilla style dance performances captured on film throughout various locations in Miami and beyond.

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Well, originally, our company started in 2003 in New York performing without permission in sites like supermarkets, Laundromats, parks, tennis courts. I wanted to challenge the whole idea of traditional spaces of performing. There’s structures in public… in society that I feel like would be great to have a performance [in]. So this dance film is set at Miami Marine Stadium.

Why did you want to make a film there?

First, because it’s been abandoned for 20 years. The size of it was just enormous and fantastic. Also, I was really drawn to the fact that this one particular organization, Friends of the Miami Marine Stadium, along with local graffiti artists, have kind of rebirthed this space. So I was really intrigued, and I wanted to be part of that moment of the community actually really getting together and trying to bring this space back into the… use for the community.

What’s going to be the music for the film?

So this wonderful artist I’m working with -- his name is Datamouth -- he’s taking natural soundscapes from the Marine Stadium, like the bay. He’s taking the sounds of spray cans.

And the spray cans to reflect the graffiti that covers so much of the Marine Stadium?

Yes!

Tell me about the title of the film.

“Culture Concrete” is what we’re calling the film. In the 1960s, there was this whole movement in Miami of really using concrete. Like if you look at the Miami Beach bandshell stuff, also some of the Miami Dade [College] campuses, all structures are like heavy, heavy concrete. So I thought that was really interesting. Also, “Culture Concrete,” to me, resonates with the culture -- the graffiti culture -- that’s happening here in Miami. ... Also, I think the culture that’s changing here in Miami. I think people are becoming more conscious and artists are being more aware of how important it is to take back some spaces and to reclaim and to do things more in an artful way.

https://liveartsmiami.org/currents/

A DOUBLE FEATURE FILM AND IMMERSIVE ART EXPERIENCE

Miami-based choreographer and interdisciplinary artist Hattie Mae Williams premieres her latest work entitled Currents, a guided interactive happening that leads audiences through landscapes inspired by our relationship to the elements and the ways in which humankind’s actions have created divides between themselves and the cosmic realm.

At the center of the work are two new dance films, created in collaboration with Christian Salazar, that encourage audiences to examine and transform their connections to the elements and strategically survive while dreaming of a liberated new world. This double-feature film experience will transform the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami into the ethereal world of the subconscious where both isolated and communal reflections unfold through a series of rituals that take place within immersive installations.

Currents 2021

CURRENTS 2021

Interactive Films

Art Installation

To Watch Film Marooned

Culture Concrete Site Specific Film at the Miami Marine Stadium

The Knight Arts Challenge Grant supported this important film that documents a time in Miami and a historical site full of past memories through a dance narrative. To view the full film check out link- https://vimeo.com/111488273

Totem

Guerrilla Style project where The Tattooed Ballerina's explored sites in Miami. Check out more episodes at www.themiamisitesminiseries.com

A Place Called Home

A Place Called Home, was a photography project I completed during my Masters program at Goddard College. This was a piece that supported my Sites specific work more in depth and looked at Miami, my place of birth and the lack of care to historic Black buildings. I couldn't help but wonder how locals are affected by their surroundings and if we subconsciously equate the lack care in our environmental landscapes with our larger bodies.

Banana Film

This Film was created as part of an installation for performance SNATCHED. This piece looked at the exploitation of historical Black bodies such as Josephine Baker, Sarah Baartman, Ota Benga, and how it is politically and socially relevant today.

Invocation of Goddess Sekhmet

Site Specific performance at Vizcaya Museum Gardens- To view live performance check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw51kW5synU&t=171s

Offerings- A Site Inspired Community Engagement

OMM SISTAS create sacred space, joined in dialogue, community, and remembering ancestors at Gould's Park April 30, 2017. Supported by BassFisher

Fire Gods In The Garden of Vizcaya

Hattie Mae Williams, artistic director of The Tattooed Ballerinas embodies the Lady of Slaughter Sekhmet, April 12, 2017 @ 7:30pm & 8:15pm. Free with Museum entrance.

Common Field Convening 2016

The OMM Sistas, Hattie Mae Williams and Loni Johnson presents Offerings II. A installation performance piece that looks at the harsh intersections of violence towards people of color and woman. Looking at community and rituals as a means to heal, save and protect the mind, body, and spirit through movement, art, and poetry is our attempt to organize change towards a livable future.

The Miami Sites Mini Series

Check out the Tattooed Ballerinas in guerrilla style dance films, in various public space through out Miami. Break the institutional way of viewing dance and art; be everyday. Click on link below...
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OMM Sistas Hattie Mae Williams & Loni Johnson present "Snatched"

Miami Light Project presents Here and Now Festival

Dates: May 7-9 & May 14-16 all shows start@ 8 pm
tickets @ http://miamilightproject.com/shows.html#

“Snatched” a sites specific interdisciplinary “happening” that pays homage to Sarah Baartman, Ota Benga and Josephine Baker; a recognition of their narratives, and the parallels between their experiences and our own. This journey is a look into he eroticism of the black female body in a racist, capitalist, patriarchal society. In recognizing the negative effects or imprints the imperial gaze has had and continues to have on our psyche; how do we take ownership in our beauty and ancestry without falling victim to the exploitative structures that are presented for us to express our femininity/masculinity? Are you aware that your being viewed? Are you aware that you also are the viewer?