It was Monday morning in studio 206, and Kori Tatman felt more alive than she had in days.
At the front of the room, pumping bass exploded from the speakers, traveling from the floor into dancers’ bones. It was New Haven, circa 2024. It was Harlem, circa 1985. The bass reached her chest, and Tatman began to move in long, businesslike strides, sinking into her hips and shoulders. With each step, she connected to histories—of dance, of free expression, of Black and Brown LGBTQ+ solidarity—that made her love the form.
READ the Arts Paper and learn more about the New Haven Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School master class led by dancers Ondrej Vidlar and Perle Palombe, both longtime collaborators with Trajal Harrell and part of his performances with the Yale Schwarzman Center.