Dedicated to personal and collective imagination and transformation, choreographer, performer and cultural organizer Paloma McGregor is a Caribbean-born, New York-based dance-maker who centers Black people, stories and spaces. Her longtime project, Building a Better Fishtrap, rooted in her father's disappearing fishing tradition, uses performance practice to explore three animating questions: What do we take with us? Leave behind? Reclaim? Over time Fishtrap has been crafted as an ensemble fable in an old church hall, a solo work on an island in Venice, a short film in a Crucian cane field, and a series of rituals along the Bronx River with audiences in boats.

As artistic director and co-founder of Angela's Pulse, McGregor has cultivated a large, dynamic creative ecosystem. Under the platform Dancing While Black, she has established leadership development programs, produced innovative performance work by Black dance artists, fostered intergenerational collaborations, and organized creative gatherings, as well as producing an online journal.
 

photo by Whitney Browne