Makeda Thomas

2013 Creative Capital grantee, MAKEDA THOMAS has created several works through cross-disciplinary collaboration with artists around the world: "Make. Believe.", a one-time project with Brooklyn-based poet/performance artist, Queen GodIs; "Sighting Freedom", a site-specific work at the Buffalo Canal Harbor featuring collaborations with violinist Henri Muhammad and storyteller Karima Amin; "FreshWater", a solo work with Trinidadian sound designer, Keshav Singh, and costume designer, Robert Young; "Costa Del Alma", filmed in the Indian Ocean with Finnish cinematographer, Panu Kari; "Moving Still", with German photographer, Stefan Falke; the short film, "Ramgoolie Trace" with Tobago-based multi-media artist, Elspeth Duncan; and the internationally acclaimed interdisciplinary work "A Sense of Place", for which Graça Machel (Former First Lady of South Africa and Moçambique) served as the Honorary Patron. Her choreography has been presented internationally in NYC at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York Live Arts, HARLEM Stage/Aaron Davis Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and BRIC Arts, Seattle's Broadway Performance Hall, Maputo's Teatro Africa, Port of Spain's Caribbean Contemporary Arts and Queen's Hall, at The National Gallery and 7 Arts Centre in Zimbabwe, and Teatro de la Ciudad for Performática and Festival Barroquismo in Mexico, among many others.