BIGKID DANCE
Photo by Matthew Caserta / Bigkid Dance Artists Makaila Chiplin, kira shiina & Miles Yeung
BIGKID DANCE is the home for all of Mark’s works & projects. These new creations will be mostly collaborative with an ever changing and growing collective of artists from many different cultures, backgrounds, identities, practices and artistic mediums.
BIGKIDS Mission is to create a safe, loving space and practice for all artists involved with hopes of emulating that safety, love, empathy and compassion out into the dance community & world. We want to bring people together to broaden our worldly knowledge of humanity, culture and experience, create community and self preservation in our field. With works rooted in the upheaval of childhood and trans-generational trauma, we hope to understand more about the human condition and spread love, care, hope, empathy and light to those involved in our creations, those viewing and those around us.
GOALS
-Harness our voice as a small dance community in Philadelphia.
-Disrupt the norms that have been set up in art making, dance making and the way a company looks.
-Provide access to dance, our movement language and our performances to the greater community.
-Reach out and get people moving, thinking, collaborating, creating and bringing people together.
-Expand our voices, our art to more populated artistic areas like NY and LA so we can broaden our scope.
-Take BigKids work on tour around the country and soon around the world to reach more smaller communities and spread our love of dance, collaboration, nostalgic art making and how it’s all rooted in love.
-Be a beacon and safe haven for the dance community. A place for people to come to knowing they will be accepted no matter what. A place where artists can express and be their truest selves.
Collaborative Artist, Gianna Theodore
Please support BIGkid Dance 2022/23 upcoming projects and consider making a donation below!!
If you’d like to make a tax deductible donation, head over to the SUPPORT page to donate through Fractured Atlas. If you’d like to just donate as a gift to support BIGKID DANCE projects, click the link below for our gofundme!
BIGKID DANCE Collaborators
(Collaborative Artists) 2021-2025
Amanda Peet Montay Romero Makaila Chiplin AJ Libert Kimie Parker
Carsyn Gekas Ashton Benn Miles Yeung Jahnell Boozer Caleb Gonzales
Dorchel Haqq Kevin Zambrano kira shiina Kiki Carruth Kevin Ocampo
Mikey Morado Alex Lockhart Emma Olivier Alex Sanchez Olivia Best
Gigi Todisco Riccardo Hartley Roderick Phifer Eduardo Jimenez Cabrera
Mikhail Calliste Christian Burse Maris Ma’ayan Kaplan
BigKid Dance Artists Photographed: Makaila (Chip) Chiplin, Miles Yeung, Kira Shiina / Photos by Matthew Caserta
Early BIGKID DANCE : Works
it’s better when you close your eyes (process/bts)
THIS ONE (preview)
GUM (preview)
NAIL BITE (FULL)
TIME OUT (full)
rush (full)
NEVERLAST (full)
GRIP (full)
Bigkid Dance Quilt