Written by Kayla Herrera-Daya, Whitewall
Jade Solomon Curtis, an activist, choreographer, and dance artist, embraces community organization and the power of dance as tools in healing. She is the founder of Solo Magic, a non-profit arts initiative with collaboration at its center to create socially relevant pieces. She is also the founder and curator of the (RBFP), a global residency program that uplifts artists whose work exists in the realm of resisting racism and transphobia. RBFP, like most everything Curtis does, seeks justice and equity, with an emphasis on counter-cultural movements and conversations.
Curtis speaks with Whitewall about her activism, using dance to explore trauma, and what she’s learned about intuition as she’s performed and shared her work through the pandemic. While Curtis’ work involves itself in social justice, her true mission is allowing artists to exist in their most honest selves, free of oppressive expectations and systems.
WHITEWALL: What inspired you to first establish the Radical Black Femme Project?
JADE SOLOMON CURTIS: Radical Black Femme Project (RBFP) was birthed out of a desire for a space and community where Black Femme creatives of all genders and mediums could contemplate, reimagine and simply be without institutionalized frameworks dictating and determining our value. RBFP was established as an active digital sanctuary to support, heal and reconnect the disconnection between the diaspora and its children spread out amongst the globe. Read More