Anna Martine Whitehead does performance from the homelands of the Council of the Three Fires: The Odawa, Ojibwe and Potawatomi Nations; as well as the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Sauk and Meskwaki; the Kiikaapoi, Peoria, and the Očeti Šakówiŋ (Sioux) Nations. Their solo and collaborative work has been presented by the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art; REDCAT; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Museum of Modern Art; San José Museum of Art; Links Hall; and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She has developed her craft working closely with Takahiro Yamamoto, Onye Ozuzu, Jefferson Pinder, taisha paggett, Every house has a door, Keith Hennessy, BodyCartography Project, Julien Prévieux, and the Prison + Neighborhood Art Project, among others. She has been recognized with awards and fellowships from the New England Foundation for the Arts, National Performance Network, Graham Foundation, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, MAP Fund, Dance/USA, PICA Creative Exchange Lab, University of Chicago Arts + Public Life, 3Arts, Chicago Dancemakers Forum, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Rauschenberg Foundation. Martine has written about blackness, queerness, and bodies in action for Art21 Magazine, C Magazine, frieze, Art Practical; and contributed chapters to a range of publications including Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings (Oxford, 2017), Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements (Sobsercove, 2016), and Platforms: Ten Years of Chances Dances (2016). Martine is the author of TREASURE | My Black Rupture (Thread Makes Blanket, 2016).
H-E-L-L-O… There’s No Place Like Home… Somewhere Over the Rainbow… We Atone with Cauleen Smith and Jeff Parker at MASS MoCA, image courtesy MASS MoCA.
FORCE! an opera in three acts at REDCAT, image by Angel Origgi
