Woods Valdes: Soulowork, Feeling Orange Again, Attitude

Along with the creation of a new soulowork, Feeling Orange Again, Andrea E. Woods Valdés continues to write for Attitude: The Dancers Magazine. In February, she was a guest artist at Hollins University, teaching modern dance and providing a dance for the camera lecture demonstration based on her new and previous video works. She is also currently collaborating with UNC Fellow/African Diaspora Historian/visual artist Tammy L. Brown on Back Water Graffiti. Woods will perform the choreopoem for a video project of Brown’s original poetry; the completed project with be internet accessible this fall. During summer 2013, Woods directed the Duke in Ghana Program, a six-week under- graduate study-abroad course focusing on fieldwork and ethnography in and around Accra, Ghana.

In addition she was a guest teacher at New Waves Dance & Performance Institute in Port of Prince, Trinidad in 2013. Two of her new videodance works are in progress: Up In Here filmed by visual artist Kristin Bedford http://vimeo.com/59089443 and Woods’ own work New Moon Sister http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=TX_BfqN8atw&feature=youtu.be