🎠The EMBODY Praxis™
Remember. Embody. Educate. Empower.
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The EMBODY Praxis™ begins in the body, draws strength from Black cultural memory, and transforms trauma into tools for liberation.
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EMBODY Praxis™ is an embodied framework rooted in performance, pedagogy, reflection, and critical engagement. Developed through interdisciplinary artistic practice, scholarship, and lived experience, the framework invites individuals and institutions to engage embodiment as a site of inquiry, transformation, learning, and human connection..
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This innovative framework bridges performance art, racial trauma theory, and healing-centered pedagogy to spark meaningful engagement in academic, artistic, community, and corporate spaces.
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Developed by scholar-artist Yao Kahlil Newkirk through the year-long durational performance Separation Anxiety, EMBODY Praxis™ is rooted in lived experience, ritual practice, and scholarly inquiry. It challenges institutions to reimagine how they engage equity, identity, embodiment, and cultural transformation—not as abstract ideals, but as ongoing
embodied commitments.
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Remember. Embody. Educate. Empower.
Services
Below is a list of services offered by Black Feather Theatre Co., including keynote speaking, interactive workshops, and other creative, custom experiences.
At Black Feather Theatre Company, we offer dynamic keynote lectures and lecture-performances led by Dr. Yao Kahlil Newkirk, exploring embodiment, performance, Black cultural memory, education, leadership, and transformative social engagement through the lens of art, scholarship, and lived experience.
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At the intersection of performance, embodiment, education, and cultural engagement, Black Feather Theatre Company offers transformative workshops that utilize artistic practice, reflection, and embodied inquiry as tools for critical engagement, collaborative learning, and meaningful social connection.
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At Black Feather Theatre Company, our residencies and institutional partnerships create immersive, interdisciplinary experiences that bring together performance, embodiment, scholarship, and community engagement through multi-day collaborations, lecture-performances, workshops, and creative inquiry.
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Mailing Address:
1317 E. 9th St.
Unit #3
Upland, CA 91786
E-Mail: info@YaoKahlil.com
Tel: 716.717.2292
