Watch Steve Hall of Marshall University and Jessica Fox and her company from 4th Avenue Arts perform within the Huntington Museum of Art during this arts-integrated tour, Look Listen Move.
As a result of studying traditional West African music with the esteemed African scholars J.H.K. Nketia, Dr. Pascal Younge, and others at the University of Ghana, Legon, West Africa in 1998, Professor Steve Hall has created the extremely popular MU African Drumming and Dance Ensemble. Steve has shared his knowledge with Cabell County students for over 10 years now through the "Look, Listen, Move" tour.
Jessica Fox holds an MFA in Dance from Hollins University in collaboration with the Forsythe Company, and the University of Frankfurt (2017). She received a grant to study at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre in 2002, was awarded a field study grant to research contact improvisation in 2003, and obtained a BFA in dance from Ohio University in 2004. Fox has presented/performed work: RadFest (Kalamazoo, MI), Jack Guidone Theatre (Washington, DC), Greenberg Theatre (Washington, DC), Alvin Ailey Studio Theatre (NYC), Eleanor D. Wilson Museum (Roanoke, VA), Gooseroute Dance Festival (Shepherdstown, WV), Imagination Stage (Bethesda, MD), Joan C. Edwards Theatre (Huntington, WV), Huntington Museum of Art (Huntington, WV), Memorial Auditorium (Athens, OH), various other performance spaces.
The Huntington Museum of Art wishes to acknowledge and thank Janet Bromley for the development of this arts-integrated program in 1976 and the partnership she created among the Huntington Symphony Orchestra, the Huntington Museum of Art and Cabell County Public Schools. This program has endured, and in 2010 evolved into the "Look, Listen, Move" with the guidance of Steve Hall and Jessica Fox.