Calendar

2019

April: Esther choreographed work on Temple University Dancers for Endings Performance
July 1-July 31: Final production residency at CDC Ouagadougou for Birds Refused to Fly
July 21-28: Esther/Propelled Animals @ Lynden Sculpture Gardens Residency for Call and Response Series
Aug 7-14: Esther @Art Yard Residency New Jersey "We are the river" project with Gerard Minaya and Emma White Thunder
September: BTDP @ Chicago Biennale commission
September-November: Touring When Birds Refused to Fly
October "We are the River" at ArtYard community project
December residency at Kelly Strayhorn with Propelled Animals for Transmission Project

2018

April: Esther visiting artist at Rio Hondo Community College, OTIS College of Art and Design, UCLA Dance, and Pieter Performance Space
April-June: TreeWaterLand workshops at Washington Pier with Esther through The Whole Shebang, Philadelphia
August: Esther commissioned to create new work on dancers at University of Milwaukee
September: With Propelled Animals Dis/Unity: A Service @ Grinnell College invited by Center for Humaniites
September with Propelled Animals at Vertigo Performance Festival in Cedar Falls, Iowa
November: EstroGenius Festival, NY
ColLAB Arts NJ Sparc Mason Gross School of Dance, Camden, NJ
Pietere Performance Space curated evening of performances including TreeWaterLand in Los Angeles
Headlong Performance Space Incubated Artist showing
November: Esther as visiting artist at Carnegie Mellon University School of Art
December: Esther choreographed work on Temple University Dancers for Endings Performance
December: When Birds Refused to Fly avant premiere at Dialogue De Corps Festival CDD Ougadougou

2017

January 7: Esther @ "Not Sorry/Saturnalia" @ Pasaje Rodriguez, Tijuana, Mexico
Jan 9-21: Esther residency Ingravitas Esceníca @ IBC, Tijuana, Mexico
Feb 19: Esther @ The Rotunda Philly
March 17: Esther "A Letter to White America" @ Baad Ass Women's Festival, Bronx
March 11-26: Olivier @ Hand Percussion, Malaysia Residency Commission
April 2, 2017: Light Happenings curated by LabBodies, Baltimore 9pm
May 15-21: Esther and Olivier perform and teach @ Festival Tamadi' Arts, Carvin, France
Aug 4-13: Olivier comissioned by HANDS PERCUSSION premiere "Wind of Nomads" Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Aug 12: "A Letter to White America" @ The Wassaic Festival, NY http://wassaicproject.org/programming/events/august-festival/
Sept 2-10: "Dis/Unity: A Service" premiere at The Englert Theatre, Iowa City, IA http://www.englert.org/
Sept 16: "Declassified Memory Fragment" @Grinnell College, Iowa
Sept 26th: DAFRA KURA @ Middlebury College, VT
Sept 29- 30 "Declassified Memory Fragment" @ Middlbury College, VT http://sites.middlebury.edu/middpas/2017/07/17/declassified-memory-fragm...
Oct 4: "Declassified Memory Fragment" @ Harlem Stage in co-production with 651Arts, NY
Oct 6: "Declassified Memory Fragment" @ Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University, NJ
Oct 12-14: "Declassified Memory Fragment" @ Fringe Arts Philadelphia http://fringearts.com/event/declassified-memory-fragment-3/
Nov 4-11: TLE @ International Festival in Hong Kong
Dec 8-9: Esther @ Rutgers w/ TBD

2016

January 5-10: Esther residency and performance w/Isai Garcia and Oscar Edel Ma "A Love Letter" @ Gallery Television, Tijuana
Jan 12: Esther, Isai @ The Women's Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles http://womenscenterforcreativework.com/
Jan 13: Esther, Isai @ Low Gallery, San Diego, CA
Jan 31: Film "Je Suis Un Cheval" screens at The Tanzrauschen International Dance on Screen Festival, Wuppertal, Germany
Feb 26: Esther curating and performing as part of Racism is a Sickness, Philadelphia, PA https://www.facebook.com/RMUS2015/
Feb 15: Film "Je Suis un Cheval" screens at Lincoln Center as part of the NY Dance For Camera International Film Festival, NY
February 19-21: SLIPPAGE conference @ Duke
March 25 2016: "Je suis un Cheval" screens at Opine Dance Film Festival, Atlanta
March 29-April 3: Esther and Olivier teach at perform at Bali Spirit Festival, Ubud, Indonesia http://www.balispiritfestival.com/
April 29, May 10-15: Film "Je Suis Un Cheval" screens @ Fête de la danse“, Lausanne and Zürich tanzt in Zurichat by Schweizer Tanzarchiv, Switzerland
May TBD: Olivier residency with Maya Dance Theatre, Singapore and Hands Percussion, Malaysia
June 8-19: "Dis/Unity: A Service" residency @ Englert Theatre Residency, Iowa City
June 22-July 5: "A Love Letter" residency w/ Isai Garcia and Mawiyah Dowd at DanceLab with INGRAVITAS Tijuana, Mexico
July 18-24: Esther @ Essential Departures Residency, Rosekill Farm, NY
July 30th: Esther @ Space LAB with LabBodies, Balitmore
August TBD: Olivier residency in Burkina Faso with Dafra Kura
August 14-21, 2016 Interdisciplinary Artist Consortium, Earthdance, MA
Aug 27, @Eris Temple Philadelphia, PA Esther guest w/ WildTorus
Sept 1, "Je Suis Un Cheval" screens @ Teatro Martins Gonçalvez, in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
September DAFRADrum @Hands Percussion International Festival, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
September 21: Esther guest lecture/workshop at UABC Arte Facultdad, Tijuana, Mexico
October Olivier "Not Because You're African" at ActionDanse, Oujda, Morocco
Nov 1 "Je suis un Cheval" @ Africa in Motion - http://www.africa-in-motion.org.uk/ at the Dance Base, Edinburgh Scotland
Nov 16: Esther "Gringa Loca" @ Performanx Bronx Museum of the Arts http://www.bronxmuseum.org/
Dec 18: Esther "A Letter to White Amerika" Diverse Universe Festival @The Gateway Brooklyn, NY

2015

February 4-22: Olivier Tarpaga Comission and Residency at Grinnell College, IA
May 13-22: Commission residency #1 for HANDS PERCUSSION, Malaysia http://www.hands.my/
May 18-21: Workshops with performers at ASWARA, Malaysia http://www.aswara.edu.my/web/ms/
May 23-30: Workshops in Perth, Australia Temple of Fine Arts http://smv.org.au/about/the-temple-of-fine-arts/
May 30: Esther performance collaboration with Heidi Wiren-Bartlett @ Panopoly Performance Lab, Brooklyn, NY
June 4: Work meeting with Maya Dance Theatre, Singapore
June 6: Work meeting, Bali, Indonesia
June 7: "Border Border Border Conjure Dazzle" Esther curates and performance with Heidi Wiren-Bartlett @ Vox Populi, Philadelphia http://voxpopuligallery.org/exhibition-categories/current/
June 8: Work meeting with the Festival offices of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Hong Kong
June 9-14: Commission of music and dance performance for Taichung Kan, in Taichung Taiwan
July 13-18: Dis/Unity Residency, Philadelphia
July 20-27: Whiteness De-Centered Residency, Saratoga Springs and Troy, NY
Aug 1: Esther Performance collaboration with Heidi Wiren Bartlett @ Wassaic Project Festival, NY http://wassaicproject.org/festival/about/
Aug 5-22: DECLASSIFIED MEMORY FRAGMENT residency, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Aug 16-29: Esther works with Guillermo Gomez-Pena/La Pocha Nostra Summer School Training and Performance, Tijuana, Mexico
Aug 29: 8pm Performance with Guillermo Gomez-Pena/La Pocha Nostra at Centrol Cultural Tijuan http://www.cecut.gob.mx/
Sept 6-12: DECLASSIFIED MEMORY FRAGMENT residency, showing and teaching at Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
Sept 14-18: DECLASSIFIED MEMORY FRAGMENT residency, showing and teaching at Denison University, Granville, OH
Sept 17: DECLASSIFIED MEMORY FRAGMENT avant premier performance at Denison University
Sept 18: Dafra Jura Band concert at Denison University, Granville, OH
Sept 20-25: Tech resiedncy (Lighting design, sound and set) at the Kelly Strayhorn Theatre, Pittsburgh PA www.kelly-strayhorn.org
Sept 26: World premier of DECLASSIFIED MEMORY FRAGMENT www.kelly-strayhorn.org
Sept 24-26: Esther Clifford Symposium Guest Lecture Performance, Middlebury College, VT
Oct 23: AGROFEMME: INCORRUPTIBLE FLESH Esther and Heidi Bartlett Collaboration @ Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY with PF QUINQl and Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival http://panoplylab.org/quinquennial/
November 12: Olivier teaching in London, England.
November 16: NOT BECAUSE YOU'RE AFRICAN @ Sri Lanka contemporary dance festival
Nov 17: Olivier masterclass in Seoul, South Korea.
December 10-23: Olivier Tarpaga Commision residency part 1 for Maya Dance Theatre, Singapore www.mayadancetheatre.org

2014

January 4, 2014: SOMArts 100 Performance for the Hole, San Francisco, CA Whitewashed http://www.somarts.org/100performances/
January 12, 2014: FReSH Festival @ Kunst Stoff, San Francisco, CA Whiteness Revisited : http://www.artsbuildingconsortium.org/projects/
January 25-26: Collaboration Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Saul Garcia Lopez @ Galeria de La Raza, San Francisco, CA : http://www.galeriadelaraza.org/
February 21-23, 2014: Kelly Strayhorn Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA: Beautiful Struggle http://kelly-strayhorn.org/
February 27-28, 2014: Space Place Theatre Commission for University of Iowa Dance Company
April 19, 2014: Ten Tiny Performances @ The Englert, Iowa City, IA: MILK curating event and new work: http://englert.org/
April 24-26, 2014: Grant Wood Symposium: Iowa City, IA: new work and collaborations
June 1-8: Nomad Express Festival: MILK 2 Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
June 5-15: Rapid Pulse Festival, Chicago, Illinois: Free to be You and Me Film in Festival: http://rapidpulse.org/
July 13-20:Moving Arts Lab and Interdisciplinary Residency, Earthdance, Massachusettes: http://www.earthdance.net/calendar/2014/07/moving-arts-lab
September 7-13: Residency and performance with La Pocha Nostra New Barbarians 3.0 x-treme fashion show & photo performance karaoke, Fort Mason, San Francisco http://www.fortmason.org/events/events-details?id=3060
October 17-19: Dance Gala, U Iowa commission for interdisciplinary performance project, Iowa City, IA http://dance.uiowa.edu/resources/events/dance-gala-2014
November 13: Eleven Tiny Performances Miley Whiteness Revisited @ Englert Theatre, Iowa City, IA
Nov 13-16: Congress of Research on Dance paper/performance, Iowa City, IA
November 1-25: Teaching and Performances in Taiwan and Japan Not Because You're African @ Dance Bridge International Festival, Session House, Tokyo Japan
December: Winter Concert University of the Arts #ThinkingOutLoud at Merriam Theatre, Philadelphia PA

2013

Jan 2013: APAP NYC- PENTACLE SHOWCASE Dance New Amstradam, NYC http://www.pentacle.org/metro_baker_and_tarpaga.php
February 2, 2013: Columbus, OH: Black History Month: Beautiful Struggle
March 7-15, 2013: Centre Culturelle Franco-Nigerian Residency with ADC-Niger
March 30, 2013: San Francisco Performance Art Insittute: Esther performs with Guillermo Gomez-Pena La Pocha Nostra for premiere of Corpo Inssurrecto 3.0: The Robo-Proletariat
April 26-27, 2013: Africa Moves Festival, Denison University, OH Not Because You're African
May 10-30, 2013: Cotonou, Benin Residency with ADC- Niger
June 14-28, 2013: Centre Development Choreographique, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso DeClassified Residency
June 17- August 23, 2013: Headlands Center for the Arts Artist In Residence, Sausalito, California Her Other Side, and TBD http://www.headlands.org/
June 27, 2013: Performance Studies International Conference performance curated by SOMArts (with Julie Alpert), Stanford University, California
June 29- July 17: Singapore, Commissioned Residency
July 27, 2013: Perform Chinatown (with Alyson Wyper, Hind Benali, Marcos Najera), Chinatown, Los Angeles, California https://www.facebook.com/events/316611968472455/?fref=ts
July 18-August 1: Taiwan, Teaching
August 7, 2013: Counterpulse, San Francisco Work In Progress Showing Her Other Side http://counterpulse.org/
August 30-31st, 2013: Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA Her Other Side http://highwaysperformance.org/highways/
September 1-15, 2013: Les Jeux de la Francophonie, Nice, France Residence and Performance with ADC- Niger
August 2013-May 2014: GRANT WOODS FELLOW at University of Iowa http://www.art.uiowa.edu/gw_esther_baker-tarpaga.html
October 4-Nov 15, 2013: Suitcase Fund in East Africa

2012

May 12th 2012: Pittsburgh: The Kelly Strayhorn Theater: Not Because You’re African
June 12-14 2012: Singapore: Goodman Arts Center: Masterclass with Frontier Danceland
June 16-July 6: Taiwan: Commissioning residency with Sibongie Ensemble
July 3-18: Burkina Faso Espace Napam Beogo: Residency and Showing of Her Other Side at Centre Development Choreographique
July 27: Residency- Napam Beogo Center and Performance at Centre Developement Choreographique: Her Other Side
August 3: Ouaga ImprovArts Festival: DeClassified
September 10-26: Antananarivo, Madagascar: Teaching residency by Esther Baker-Tarpaga at I Trotra Festival- NEW YORK LIVE ARTS SUITCASE FUNDED PROJECT
September 28: Madagascar: I Trotra Festival: Beautiful Struggle http://itrotra.alter-forum.net/
October 25-Nov 13: New work commission residency at the Temple of Fine Arts, Perth Australia
November 8-12: Performances of new work at the Swan Lake Festival of Lights, Perth, Australia
December 8-16: Morocco: The National Theatre of Rabat: Residency and Performance Her Other Side
December 2012: Burkina Faso: Dialogue De Corps International Dance Festival: DeClassified Premiere
The King Arts Complex, Columbus, OH
Purdue University Dance Department, Indiana
Denison University, Ohio
OSU Lima, Lima, Ohio
SOMArts 100 Performances, San Francisco, CA
Feverhead 10 Tiny Dances, Columbus, OH

2011

Columbus Athanaeum, Ohio
Feverhead, Columbus, Ohio
Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival
Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh
DABA TEATRE Citoyen, Rabat, Morocco
The Ailey Citigroup Theater

2010

Action Danse International Festival. Casablanca, Meknes and Marrakech, Morocco
The French Cultural Center, Dakar, Senegal
Global Dance Conference, Dance Theater Workshop (DTW), New York City
Summer Sounds Festival 41st Season Summer of World music, Hollywood Bowl
Museum, Hollywood, CA
Cudamani Institute, Bali, Indonesia
ASWARA, (National Academy for the Arts), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
OSU Department of Dance, Riffe Center’s Capitol Theatre, Columbus, OH
Abok I Ngoma International Dance & Drum Festival, Yaoundé, Cameroon (Central Africa)
Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
OSU Lima, Lima, OH

2009

Wild Dancing West Festival, VSA, Albuquerque, New Mexico
California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
United Nation International School in Hanoi ,Vietnam
Canyon Charter Elementary School, Santa Monica, CA
Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
The International Festival of Sacred Arts, New Delhi, India

2008

LA’s Best After School Program Community Jam, The KODAK Theater, Hollywood, California
“Recto Verso” CHIME Project, The Farmlab, Downtown Los Angeles
Rio Hando Community college, Whittier, CA
Bowers Museum of Cultural Arts, Santa Ana, CA
Marlborough High School, Los Angeles, CA
Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles CA
Grant R. Brimhall Library, Thousand Oaks, California
World Festival of Sacred Music, Santa Monica, CA
Street Art Festival, Santa Clarita, CA
World Festival of Sacred Music, MOOLA Long Beach, CA
The Ford Amphitheater, Hollywood, California
The NOW Festival at the Red Cat theatre, Los Angeles
Santa Monica Festival, Santa Monica CA
Earth Day Festival Santa Barbara, California
Celebrate Dance Festival 2008, The Alex Theater, Glendale, CA
Abundant Sugar at The Brewery in Downtown Los Angeles
Glorya Kaufman Hall WAC/UCLA
Rich Forum, Stamford Center for the Arts, Stamford, Connecticut
Brentwood School, Los Angeles, CA

2007

SOLA Contemporary Dance Festival 2007, James Armstrong Theater CA
Electric Lodge theater, Dancing in the Margins Festival.Venice, CA
Dancing in the Margins Festival, Los Angeles.
Western Arts Aliance Conference, Los Angeles (USA)
The Derby Dolls Event at Industry Hills Expo Center’s Grand Arena, City of Industry California
The Luckman Theater of Cal State University, Los Angeles CA
Emerging Above Ground Festival at the Diavolo Space, Los Angeles CA
Festival de Hoodoo, Afro-contemporaine in Montpellier, France.
Centre Culturel Franco-Guineen Residency and performance commissioned by the US
Embassy in Conakry for Ballet National Djoliba Conakry, (Guinea)
Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica (USA)
Cal State University, Los Angeles (USA)
Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Bremen, (Germany)
Zig Zag Ballet, Connecticut (USA)

2005-2006

Dialogue de Corps International dance festival, Ouagadougou, (Burkina Faso)
Dancing in the Margins Festival at the Deaf West Theatre, North Hollywood, CA (USA)
OPENING MOVES Open Gate Theater- Eagle Rock, California (USA)
Akedemi Seni Budaya Dan Warisan Kebangsaan Kuala Lumpur, (Malaysia)
Tokyo Olympic Center, Tokyo, (Japan)
Tel Aviv’s University radio station, Tel Aviv, (Israel)
UCLA’s World Arts and Cultures MFA series at Glorya Kaufman Theater Los Angeles (USA)
Maitisong Festival, Gaborone, (Botswana)
The Heart of the Arts in Pretoria, (South Africa)
Ausdance, King Street Arts Center Perth, (Australia)
Then Again Festival at Center Stage Theater, Santa Barbara (USA)
Festival Tam Tam Macadam in Alma and Chicoutimi, Quebec, (Canada)
Dance Under Construction Conference WAC/UCLA Los Angeles (USA)

2001-2004

Educational Center for the Arts Dance Theater, New Haven, Connecticut (USA)
The Rich Forum Stamford Performing Arts Center, Stamford, Connecticut
The Presbuterian Church, New York City (USA)
Djoniba Dance and Drum Center, New York City (USA)
The French Cultural Center, Dakar Senegal
Dialogue De Corps International Dance Festival, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso