Cherie Hill IrieDance Artistic Works and Performance History

Artist Statement

Through dance I explore humanity and the soul. I use the body to create ethereal drawings that seep in and out of different forms to express life. My work is a combination of contemporary dance phrasing, structured improvisation, African Diaspora dance and history, Western movement styles, meditation, and somatic awareness. I develop improvisational scores about nature, and collaborate with sound and visual imagery for inspiration. I am influenced by personal experience and black feminist standpoint theory. My Caribbean culture and love of metaphysics shows up in my art. I have a goal to reveal through dance the core of human existence and to discover methods for travel into the unknown.

Cherie Hill directed and choreographed dance pieces under Cherie Hill IrieDance Company from 2006-2022. Here is a timeline of the company's artistic works.

Youtube Channel

Earth Echoes Part 1: Seeds of Hope

Online; A discussion on art, race, and environmental justice, and premiere of the dance film "Seeds of Hope" inspired by activist Wangari Maathai, November 14, 2020

Cherie Hill at the David Brower Center. Photo by Sibel Guner

She-Verse

CounterPulse, San Francisco, December 5-7 and 12-14, 2019

IrieDance performs She-Verse at CounterPulse. Dancers L to R: Rose Rothfeder, Andreina Maldonado, Lashon Daly, Cherie Hill. Photo by Robbie Sweeny.

Détente

Temescal Arts Center, Oakland w/ Endangered Species Films and Causa Justa: Just Cause, Oakland, August 22 & 24, 2019

Black Choreographer's Festival, Dance Mission Theater, SF, February 23 & 24, 2019

​Milk Bar, Richmond, CA, October 12-14, 2018

PushFest Dance Festival, ODC San Francisco, September 29-30, 2018

SAFEhouse Arts/Black Choreographer’s Festival, San Francisco, CA, February 24-25, 2018

Detente at SafeHouse Arts as part of the Black Choreographer's Festival. Dancers L to R: Andreina Maldonado, Cherie Hill, Rose Rothfeder. Photo by Robbie Sweeny.

Terrestrial Footprints Part 2

Alena Museum, Oakland, CA June 4-5, 2017

Grace Cathedral, San Francisco Moving Arts Festival, January 2017 & 2018

African American Arts & Culture Complex, San Francisco, CA, October 2016

Oakstop Gallery, Oakland, CA, February 5, 2016

Terrestrial Footprints

Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco, CA, Black Choreographers Festival, February 20-21, 2016

Omni Oakland Commons, Oakland, CA, June 5-6, 2015

Temescal Arts Center, Oakland, CA, Perform: Education, April 4, 2015 

Terrestrial Footprints Part 2 at the Alena Museum, Oakland. Dancers L to R: Cherie Hill, Emmaline Beban, Rose Rothfeder.

Dub Dance Project Live

Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco, CA, Black Choreographer’s Festival, February 22, 2014 

Dub Dance Project Series of Dance Films, 2012-2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvCnXwMEjA4&list=PLNC2G4uDCdGmaGrlK4BQA6h8nA_YVa0KM 

Prayer

Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, Generosity Project, January 19, 2013 Dimnent Memorial Chapel, Holland, MI, July 25, 2012 

Terrestrial Footprints Part 2 at Grace Cathedral San Francisco.Dancers: Cherie Hill, Emmaline Beban, Rose Rothfeder, Andreina Maldonado.

Under the Purple Moon

Bao Bao Festival, King Center, Auraria High Education Center, Denver, CO, March 5, 2010

Bao Bao Festival Boulder Theater, Boulder, Co, March 6, 2010 

Under the Purple Moon by Adjei Kwame and Cherie Hill, Bao Bao Festival, Boulder, CO.

The Magic of the Womb

Presented by Wings Organization, La Antigua Guatemala, 2009 

Burial

Anschutz Family Theater, Denver, CO, Assemblage Dance Concert, June 12-13, 2009 

Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco, CA, Black Choreographers Festival, February 20-21, 2009 

Color

Atlas Center for Technology and Performance, Boulder, CO., December 2009

Atlas Center for Technology and Performance, Boulder, CO. Liz Lerman Guest Artist Presentation, September 2008 

Remembering the Ancestors at Shotgun Studios, SF.

Remembering the Ancestors

Shotwell Studios, San Francisco, Footloose Artists in Motion Series, June 22-23, 2007

Live Oak Theatre, Berkeley, December 16-17, 2006

Eighth Street Studios, Berkeley, CA Works in the Works Performances, November 4, 2006 

Identity Found

Live Oak Theatre, Berkeley, CA, December 16-17, 2006.

Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, April 6-8, 2006