HubChat: The Way Back To Ourselves at Performance Garage – Philadelphia, PA

HubChat: The Way Back To Ourselves.

Come join us for an exciting evening at Performance Garage where we will be hosting a special event featuring a conversation with Floyd McLean Jr., our DanceVisions resident artist and Reggie Jones, LCSW, MSS, MLSP, Founder and CEO of The Hedera Group.

Live Performance: LUST, performed by Kaylah Arielle & James O'Gilvie of PHILADANCO!

McLean's project explores the ways we seek comfort, fulfillment, and escape in things that are ultimately fleeting. From greed and lust to substances as well as validation from others. While these experiences may offer temporary relief or satisfaction, their impermanence can leave us searching for something deeper, often pulling us further away from ourselves in the process. Through this work, McLean examines the importance of turning inward, finding our center, and discovering a sense of self that does not depend on what is temporary. In doing so, the work explores how returning to ourselves can become a pathway toward transcendence.

McLean will also discuss his choreographic influences, share clips from his past performances, and present excerpts of his work on the Performance Garage stage.

About Reggie Jones, LCSW, MSS, MLSP

Reggie Jones is a licensed clinical social worker, individual & group psychotherapist, organizational strategy consultant, and educator. She is a lover of dance and performance and finds the connection between movement, storytelling, emotion, and the unconscious mind inspiring and fascinating.

She is the Founder and CEO of The Hedera Group, where she provides individual and group psychotherapy, clinical supervision, and organizational consultation to nonprofits, foundations, healthcare systems, and academic institutions. Her clinical practice is grounded in psychodynamic theory and is explicitly trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and LGBTQ+ affirming.

Reggie previously served as Inaugural Associate Dean of Health and Wellness at Bryn Mawr College, and as Director of Counseling Services for sixteen years. She is an award-winning Part-time Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy & Practice and a faculty member at Bryn Mawr's Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute (NELI).

About Floyd McLean Jr.

Floyd McLean Jr., originally from East Orange, began his pre-professional dance training at Sharron Miller’s Academy for the Performing Arts. He went on to train through a variety of residencies and intensives including Dance Theatre of Harlem, Ballet Hispánico, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, NYU Future Dancers & Dance Makers, and Dallas Black Dance Theatre. He earned his BFA in Modern Dance from Point Park University in 2018, where he was awarded the Don Craig Scholarship. During his time there, he performed works by various choreographers and began developing his choreographing voice. Following graduation, McLean joined Dallas Black Dance Theatre’s DBDT: Encore! under the direction of Nycole Ray, where he was afforded multiple choreographic opportunities that further shaped his artistic voice. He has toured, performing extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean, engaging a wide range of repertory by notable choreographers.

About HubChats

HubChats are panel discussions led by guest artists that focus on relevant topics for Philadelphia dance artists. Participants can come with questions, stories to share, or just lend a supportive ear.

https://www.performancegarage.org/hubchats