the Shore:in/SIGHT is a multidisciplinary performance ritual, investigating the embodied activation of prayer within cosmic Blackness, dark space. This piece seeks to combine dance, film, poetry, sonic repetition, and audience participation within the healing of darkness with visual meditation, movement, and storytelling. Here in this space, Black and queer artists create portals, spaces of ceremony, celebration, prayer. We gather in darkness, to engage in storytelling about our Mutha’s, home, land, time, spatiality, and water - our beginnings and our changes. Here, is praise and worship Here, is my people created in Performing Arts Residency 2021, Contemporary Arts Center
Collaborators:
Creative Direction, Choreography, Editing - paris cyan cian
Cameron Mitchell-Ware - Creative Producer
Chanice Diante + Abeo Tibbs - Movement Collaborators
Jazzmyne Cry - Costume Design
Cinematography - Kelli Scates + Drake Matlock
Lighting Design - Jo Nazori
Contemporary Arts Center: Performing Arts Residency (2021)
experimental moving image; nonlinear conversation with my grandmother(s), as Black land, Black space, Black futures and possibilities.
“She told them that the only grace they could have, was the grace they could imagine.”
- Toni Morrison, Beloved
Merde Project Commission(2021)
"Freedom is not a secret. It's a practice." - Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Homelovemaking: woodlandcrossings is an ongoing multidisciplinary somatic series of Black outdoor portal studies, questioning the ways we enter, exit, and create spaces (in love).
SKEW Issue 02, Level Ground (2020)
access to video click here / password: hlmwc
2323BlackLuna is an embodied portal + sonic score, honoring meditation with/in darkness, dark space.
Black Girlhood Aesthetics Visual Journal (2021)
Los Angeles Dance Festival (virtual, 2020)
'fi we di black earth future, Ritual Knowledge + 12o collective (2020)
film, 5 mins
collaboration Kelli Scates
"Identity Measures," Contemporary Arts Center Open Call (2019)
Eleanor D. Wilson Museum (2018)
film, 5 mins
collaboration Kelli Scates
"Identity Measures," Contemporary Arts Center Open Call (2019)
Eleanor D. Wilson Museum (2018)
(mute) conversations with a black girl
performance
collaboration/remix lovenloops
Midwest Radfest (2019)
ACDA Informal (2016)