FlyGround is the creative home for the artistic work of Lela Aisha Jones and a multi-initiative platform that houses Dancing for Justice Philadelphia and The Requisite Movers. Through critical artistry, FlyGround prioritizes archiving diasporic narratives through movement performance and social action to amplify and bring imaginative vibrancy to dialogues concerning lived experiences of blackness. FlyGround gathers artists, educators, researchers, organizers, activists, and advocates to provide and participate in intimate movement-based spaces invested in cultivating a society with more nurtured, insightful, and harmonized people.
Lela Aisha Jones | FlyGround |
The Requisite Movers (TRM) |
Dancing for Justice Philadelphia
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I create living movement histories that lusciously archive, re-imagine, and cultivate diasporic lineages of angst and delight in the body to multiply the stories of blackness. I dance and make dances that expose and question human/woman/ black/nomadic realities and potentialities. I move coherently through cultures and traditions, meeting where I can, and realizing where I vary. I am grounded in homegrown U.S. vibes. I am traces of many. I am consciously here.
Untitled Action | Continuum of Action (filmed/edited by Aidan Un) |
TRM, founded by Lela Aisha Jones and Deneane Richburg, supports the professional development and the artistic production of dance works by self and socially identified Black female/women movement artists and choreographers of African descent by providing artistic dialogue and critical feedback intensives and by presenting their work in performances.
*TRM is undergoing a strategic planning process. We hope to provide an update in 2018. |
DFJ Philly centers the body as a place to activate individual and collective consciousness concerning the U.S. racial divide and its potential for continued, contemporary, and grave injustice. DFJ Philly is grounded in a collective understanding that Black life is tied to all life.
DFJ Philly March 1 (filmed/edited by Les Rivera) DFJ Philly March 2 (filmed/edited by Aidan Un) |