A B O U T

Why this work is important...

This piece opens up the way for BIPOC folks and marginalized folks to tell our stories. Unlike how history, literature, and cinema has been distorted to limit us within imagination, and layered stereotype and prejudice along our skin in its lens and words. With this new work, I want to turn the lens or the focus on the condition of us in history and in film to understand our experience. And then layer in the transforming imagination for us to try on roles not given to us to reveal more about the figures and stories we believe to be try, while expanding what is capable for each of us. And from this point, we dismantle the narratives entirely to write new stories that can hold our existence and truths within it. What could that be?

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With dance performance, this pushes the barriers of the spaces we are given. Going beyond representation and rebellion, to have an inclusive work and space considering BIPOC folks lives and experiences. How can various histories inform storytelling, dance, theater, text, music, and perspective? We can expand what contemporary dance-theater we've known breaking down the lines from what was once exploitative "exotic" Black dance forms and separated African Diaspora forms into including this within our identities as these characters. 

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Lastly, the use of film structures in plot/narrative, perspective, and editing techniques allows the ability to jump through the fragmented histories of oppressed peoples in the American landscape. With this erasure of history, sites, and people we can move through and along the fragments of what we have, imagine in between, and change our circumstances.