Harrell’s imagination was shaped, he said, by his “very idyllic Southern upbringing” in Douglas, as part of a well-to-do Black family. He came of age in the ’50s, and managed to buy land,” Harrell said. My grandparents were always using metaphors, like: ‘There’s more than one way to skin a cat.’”The academically gifted Harrell was pushed to be ambitious by his college-educated parents. After years as a freelance choreographer, in 2019, Harrell was invited to form a permanent dance company at the Schauspielhaus Zurich, one of the German-speaking world’s most high-profile theaters. What if there had been like a community of people to support her?,” said Harrell, who studied with the feminist thinker bell hooks at Yale.

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