reMemory

by: Aaron Allen

Through a 45-minute movement journey a company of twelve dancers take the audience on a ride through pivotal moments of black history to find an answer to the question, How far have we come? These explorations are embodied through movement, text, and music. “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”- James Baldwin

Performance dates:

• January 26th: 7:30 with talkback after
• January 27th: 6:30 in THE ANTHOLOGY
• January 28th: 8pm
• January 29th: 2pm

The Silence Has Much To Say

by: Kourtney French

A movement performance representing a healing journey. The Silence Has Much To Say brings awareness to those who are afraid to speak up about how they feel. Kourtney gives voice to those who have dealt with past trauma, illustrates how this trauma resulted in mental health issues and resolves that breaking the silence is vital to resolution. Resolution is necessary getting to the destination. The destination of healing is the goal.

Performance dates:

• Thursday January 26th 7:30pm with talkback after
• Friday January 27th: 6:30 in THE ANTHOLOGY
• Saturday January 28th 3pm
• Sunday January 29th 6pm

OBEY

by: Erin Law

OBEY is a co-creative project that explores cultural rules and structures and the effects of unexamined complacency and conformity on those in the margins.

The original sound score is inspired by and infused with samples from a 1982 cassette tape that is meant to teach children to obey authority figures. The tape encourages binary oppositional thinking: people are good or bad, actions are right or wrong. In our creative process, we question this binary lens by inviting a deeper and more nuanced perspective, brought to form in various—and sometimes contradictory—layers.

Ultimately, we reach the edges of “the Land of Obey” and we begin to venture courageously into the shadowy unknown terrain beyond.

Performance dates:

• Wednesday January 25th 7:30pm with talkback after
• Friday January 27th: 6:30 in THE ANTHOLOGY
• Saturday January 28th 8pm
• Sunday January 29th 2pm

Sentient

by: JaVonte’ Marquez

Sentient is a sci-fi tale told by 12 artificially intelligent dolls who are ignorant of their own existence; until their vessels are uploaded with a corrupt code that makes them sensitive to perception and feeling. As the code takes over the doll’s data, the line between artificial and ethereal becomes blurred, while the discovery of their autonomy spirals.

Performance dates:

• Wednesday January 25th 7:30pm with talkback after
• Friday January 27th: 6:30 in THE ANTHOLOGY
• Saturday January 28th 3pm
• Sunday January 29th 6pm