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.or
g.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