DraftWork: Annie MingHao Wang + Dorchel Haqq
Saturday, October 25 | 3PM
Curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones, Danspace Project’s DraftWork series hosts free, informal showings of new works in varying stages of development. This afternoon features performances by Annie MingHaoWang and Dorchel Haqq.
Showings are followed by a reception, conversation, and Q&A between the artists.
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Annie MingHao Wang (she/they) is a choreographer/dancer based in New York. They are a 2025 Fellow of the Bogliasco Center and have held residencies at Movement Research, Topaz Arts, Marble House Project. Leimay Foundation, BRIC, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Their work has been awarded grants by LMCC (Manhattan Arts Grant) and Brooklyn Arts Council and been presented by Pioneers Go East at the 2024 Out-FRONT! festival, Movement Research @Judson, Leimay’s OUTSIGHT series, BRIC, Five Myles, and the Exponential Festival. Annie currently dances for Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group, Maho Ogawa’s 水素co., Huiwang Zhang, Sugar Vendil, and Marie Lloyd Paspé.
Raised in Harlem, Dorchel Haqq began her journey embodying history at LaRocque Bey School of Dance Theatre and the Dance Theater of Harlem. She studied at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and received her BFA from the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, SUNY. While at Purchase, she studied abroad at the Korea National School of Arts and at B12 in Berlin, which broadened her perspective in her field. These following organizations have supported Dorchel in find herself again and again through singular and collaborative investigations: Springboard Danse and the Springboard Danse curated Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation Founder’s Residency (inaugural resident), Gallim Moving Artist(inaugural resident), Leimay Incubator AIR 2021, Center for Performance Research AIR 2024, Baryshnikov Arts Center AIR 2024, Triskelion Arts 2019+2026, Beyond the Black Box 2021+2023, Black Aesthetics Judson Commons 2024, MADE BY WOMAN Festival 2023, Estrogenius Festival 2025, Arts On Site 2019+2021, ART CAKE 2021, Movement Research Van Lier Arist of Color Fellow 2025, DraftWork by Danspace Project 2025, Battery Dance Festival 2020+2025, FRESH TRACKS NYLA 2025/2026, City Artist Corps Grant 2021, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant 2024.
Dorchel has performed in works by AIM by Kyle Abraham, Kayla Farrish, Loni Landon, Vanessa Goodman, Maya Lee-Parritz, Stefanie Batten Bland, Johannes Wieland, Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More Shanghai, and Emursive’s Life and Trust. Dorchel is in her first season with David Dorfman Dance. She is an adjunct lecturer at Purchase College, where her work has also been commissioned. Through her Movement Research Van Lier Artist of Color Fellowship, she is mentored by Nora Chipaumire.
Dorchel is a world builder who creates work with attention to intention. Her practice is physical theater with the emphasis on black futurism. Her work serves as a vessel through which she and her collaborators navigate the complexities of identity and existence, often drawing inspiration from narratives embedded within both personal experiences and broader societal contexts, and always centered in community. As a Reiki practitioner, Dorchel’s process shapes memories to create stories that explore time, space, and form within the nervous system. Dorchel cultivates her movement language by exploring the reflections of fantasy while abstracting the echoes of transgenerational trauma through her body.