REVIEWS & FEATURES
DNAWORKS IN THE PRESS
The Boston Globe article: "Fact, fiction, and forging an identity in ArtsEmerson’s ‘The Real James Bond . . . Was Dominican’"
METRMAG.com.com article: "The Real James Bond...Was Dominican" - by Christopher Rivas and Daniel Ban ks - ArtsEmerson (Boston, MA.) - Review"
BroadwayWorld.com article: "DNAWORKS Reveals New Leadership: Andrés Franco Named Executive Director"
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article: "DNAWORKS looks to create a unique identity in Fort Worth and Pittsburgh"
Fort Worth Magazine article: "Q&A: DNAWORKS Executive Director Colombian native Andrés Franco is ready to pick up the baton as first executive director"
WESA.FM article: "Production company brings new 'DNA' to Pittsburgh"
FortWorthReport.org article: "DNAWORKS Announces New Leadership: Andrés Franco Named Executive Director"
Glasstire.com article: "DNAWORKS: Fostering Dialogue and Healing Through the Arts"
PublicSource.org article: "At Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, new Artistic Director Adam McKinney seeks to create a space for everyone in dance"
Paper City article: "How a Former Ku Klux Klan Auditorium is Being Transformed Into a Cultural Hub for Healing in Texas: Carlos Gonzalez-Jaime on Transform 1012's Ambitious Mission and Where It Stands Today"
Forward article: "I am the map, the quilt, and tablecloth of those who have come before me" ‘HaMapah,’ a new installation at Fentster, traces dancer Adam McKinney’s multifaceted ancestry
KeraNews.org article "Fort Worth’s Black history has been overlooked. Four projects are reclaiming those stories"
Original.Newsbreak.com article: "Former KKK headquarters near Dallas is being converted into an arts center by non-profit volunteers"
Blackprwire.com press release: "(BPRW) Denton Black Film Festival Wraps Up Ninth Year, Eclipsing 10,000 Attendees"
Latrobe Bulletin article: "Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s The Master’s Program: Balanchine and Beyond April 14-16"
ThinkingDance.net feature: "Using Our Bodies as Sites of Restful Resistance"
Forward.com feature: "For this Black, Jewish choreographer, dance can ‘fill in the blanks of history’"
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Names New Artistic Director: Adam W. McKinney Will Serve as Organization’s Seventh Artistic Director Beginning March 2023
Daniel's acceptance speech for Theatre Communication Group's 2020 Alan Schneider Director Award HERE
DNAWORKS featured in Broadway World, “DNAWORKS in Partnership With Amphibian Stage to Receive Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts” 2021
DNAWORKS featured in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, "Can theater & dance bridge divides over race, culture? Fort Worth group shows the way" 2021
DNAWORKS featured in Culturs Magazine, 2021
Adam McKinney featured in TCU Magazine, 2021
Interview with Daniel in American Theatre magazine by Christina Anderson for receiving 2020 Alan Schneider Director Award
DNAWORKS featured on Alternate Roots Website, “ARTISTIC ASSISTANCE 2020 PROJECT DEVELOPMENT RECIPIENTS” 2020
Adam McKinney featured in D Magazine, “Why Bruce Wood’s Newest Dance Film Is Like Nothing You’ve Ever Seen Before” 2020
DNAWORKS featured in New England Foundation for the Arts Website: “Announcing National Theater Project 2020 Creation & Touring Grant Finalists" 2020
DNAWORKS featured in Teresa Coleman Wash's Howlround piece "A Time of Interrogation."
DNAWORKS' programming lauded by Cara Mia Theatre's Ariana Cook for its mindfulness of mixed-identity experiences in American Theatre, 2019 HERE.
Hollow Roots by DNAWORKS' Ensemble Member Christina Anderson reviewed by Janice L. Franklin in TheatreJones, 2018
Adam McKinney featured in “Embodying the Conversation on Arts and Social Justice” by Silva Laukannen in Dancecast, 2018
Adam McKinney’s work on dance and social justice featured in “Diversity in Movement takes a step into social justice issues“ by Shane Battis in TCU360, 2017
Daniel Banks featured in “Global Spotlight: Baku, Azerbaijan” by Nicole Estvanik Taylor in American Theatre, 2011
Adam McKinney featured in Zeek Magazine, 2009
AFTER SUNSET
CASTING A MOVEMENT: THE WELCOME TABLE INITIATIVE
Casting a Movement: The Welcome Table Initiative ed. by Claire Syler and Daniel Banks (review). Detra Payne Theatre Topics, Volume 31, Number 3, November 2021, pp. 273-274. Article.
Theatre Research International review of Casting a Movement: The Welcome Table Initiative, edited by Claire Syler and Daniel Banks, by Colin Vorbeck, Texas Tech University.
"Claire Syler and Daniel Banks' edited volume of essays, Casting a Movement: The Welcome Table Initiative, is a must read for any theatre professional, educator or student." - Read Derrick Vanmeter's full review here.
FORT WORTH LYNCHING TOUR: HONORING THE MEMORY OF MR. FRED ROUSE
NBC DFW feature: Conversations: Call for Change article. 2021
Fort Worth article: "An Eye on the Past." 2021
NBC 5 produced a video of Adam and Daniel talking about the FWLT.
Another NBC-DFW interview "Community Conversations: Fort Worth Lynching Tour" 2021
NPR-KERA radio story about FWLT: "Fort Worth Lynching Tour Brings Little-Known History To The Forefront" 2021
Fort Worth-Star Telegram article and video about FWLT: "Fort Worth lynching tour rides to remember and heal" 2021
Broadway World article about FWLT "DNAWORKS Honors Black Man Lynched in 1921 through Augmented Reality Bike and Car Tour", 2021
WORT-FM interview with Adam about FWLT: "What We Want Is Possible, What We Want for Healing Is Possible" 2021
HAMAPAH / THE MAP
J Weekly feature on Adam McKinney and HaMapah/The Map
Adam McKinney and his dance work featured in KCAW radio interviews, Sitka, AK, 2017 & 2018
Adam McKinney and HaMapah/The Map featured in "In dance, a map for discussing identity"by Tresca Weinstein on timesunion.com, 2012
HaMapah/The Map @ Skidmore College by Tresca Weinstein on timesunion.com, 2012
Adam McKinney and HaMapah/The Map featured in “McKinney’s ‘HaMapah’ Explores Heritage through Dance” by Wendy Chen in The Wellesley News, 2011
Adam McKinney and HaMapah/The Map featured in “This 16-century Rabbi Rocks: Dancer draws on his Black, Native American, Jewish heritage” by Jules Becker in The Jewish Advocate, 2011
SHELTER IN PLACE
Fort Worth Report article: "Fred Rouse, Fort Worth’s only recorded Black lynching victim, remembered in TCC exhibit"
Fort Worth article: "The Lynching of One Fort Worthian Is the Subject of a New Collaborative Art Exhibition"
Featured in Tarrant County College calendar: "Shelter in Place Art Exhibit"
Featured in the Houston Chronicle: "Critical Race Theory exhibit packs powerful punch at Houston’s Project Row Houses." 2022
Featured in The Grio: "Houston artists use row houses to bring clarity and truth to CRT." 2022
Featured in Black Enterprise: "Houston Artists Explore Controversy Surrounding Critical Race Theory Being Taught in Schools." 2022
Featured in the Sight Lines Magazine: "The Line-up: Eleven Texas exhibitions to see during spring break, and beyond." 2022
Featured in Hyperallergic: "Our Wandering, Rootless Nature, Given Shape by a Jewish Tradition." 2022
Featured in Art Memo Mag review. 2022
Featured in Forward: "Reimagining sukkahs in a time of plague." 2022
Featured in Willamette Week: "The Virtual Choreography of Adam McKinney’s “Shelter in Place” Installation Imagines One Giant Leap for Humankind." 2022
Featured in The Jerusalem Post: "Sukkot, the pandemic and a lynching come together in a Jewish art install." 2022
Featured in Argus Observer: "Multimedia exhibition Shelter in Place opens Oct. 1, on eve of Sukkot." 2022
HyperAllergic review: "Our Wandering, Rootless Nature, Given Shape by a Jewish Tradition. The autumn holiday of Sukkot continues to offer solace and community for new generations." 2021
Art [Memo] review: "We Are All Guests Here." 2021
TARRANT COUNTY COALITION for PEACE and JUSTICE
NBC DFW Adam W. McKinney and Fred Rouse, III discuss TCCPJ's work, 2021
Fort Worth Star Telegram article: "100 years after Fred Rouse was lynched in Fort Worth, these events promote healing." 2021
Adam speaks with TCU's Race & Reconciliation Initiative about TCCPJ and Transform 1012 N. Main Street, 2021
THE BORDERS PROJECT
DNAWORKS’ “The Borders Project” featured in “Beyond the Border” by Emily Wiederholdt in Stance on Dance, 2015
THE REAL JAMES BOND... WAS DOMINICAN
Featured in Culture Shock Miami's Blog, "The Power of Representation: Uncovering the Real James Bond." 2022
Featured in Culture Shock Miami's Blog, "'What does it take to be remembered?' – A Chat with Christopher Rivas." 2022
Feature in Miami's Community News article, "Culture Shock Miami Presents, ‘The Real James Bond… Was Dominican'." 2022
Featured in El Nuevo Herald article, "El verdadero James Bond... era dominicano." 2022
Featured in Miami New Times's article, "The Fifteen Best Things to Do in Miami This Week." 2022
The Real James Bond...Was Dominican featured in ArtBust Miami article. 2022
The Real James Bond...Was Dominican reviewed by Travis McCallum in The Column, 2019
The Real James Bond...Was Dominican reviewed by Teresa Marrero in TheatreJones, 2019
Christopher Rivas answer questions about DNAWORKS' production of The Real James Bond Was Dominican in TheatreJones, 2019
THE SECRET SHARER
DNAWORKS' The Secret Sharer featured in Texas A&M University's Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts page, 2022
TRANSFORM 1012 N. MAIN STREET
Transform 1012 N. Main Street Coverage Book
Featured in The Washington Post opinion piece: "When saving a symbol of white supremacy is a way to resist it." 2022
Featured in DFW501c article: "FW nonprofit colab to turn Klan building into reparative justice project." 2022
Featured in HeroMag article: "Coalition buys former KKK headquarters in Fort Worth to create a local arts and healing center." 2022
Featured in Texas News article: "A Poetic Project to Redeem the KKK Meeting Hall in Fort Worth." 2022
Featured in Dallas Observer article: "The Coalition That Saved the KKK Building in Fort Worth Explains Plans For the Lynching Site." 2022
Featured in The Dallas Morning News article: "Coalition buys former KKK headquarters in Fort Worth to create community arts and healing center." 2022
Featured in Fort Worth Magazine article: "Nonprofit Coalition Acquires KKK Building on North Main Street." 2022
Featured in Kera News article: "Fort Worth’s old KKK hall set to become a hub for racial healing through the arts." 2022
Featured CBS DFW segment: "Former Ku Klux Klan Hall In Fort Worth Being Turned Into ‘Arts And Community Healing’ Space." 2022
Featured in Fort Worth Star Telegram article: "Panther Island’s KKK building sold to arts coalition. Here’s what’s planned for it." 2022
Featured in Head Topics article: "Former Ku Klux Klan Hall In Fort Worth Being Turned Into 'Arts And Community Healing' Space." 2022
Featured in Culture Map, Fort Worth article: "Former KKK building in Fort Worth to be transformed into healing space." 2022
Featured in What's Up Fort Worth article: "Space of Hate will be Space of Truth, Reconciliation, and Liberation." 2022
NBC-DFW covers T1012 project: "Nonprofits Plan Bright Future for Old KKK Building in Fort Worth." HERE. 2022
NBC-DFW covers TRANSFORM 1012 N. MAIN STREET project: "Texas Coalition Hopes to Repurpose, Transform Old KKK Hall"
Should Fort Worth’s Klan hall be saved? This group has 180 days to prove it should. Read the whole story HERE.