TERRESTRIAL: The Sprout

TERRESTRIAL: The Sprout is the first performance work in the collaborative series of works, TERRESTRIAL. A solo dance performance, The Sprout wonders about the legacy of a single human lifetime as it relates to the broader expanse of a planet’s geological history. It wanders through the terrain of identity amidst the impossibility of individuation.

Conceived by Makini (Durham, North Carolina, USA), with co-direction by Anderson Feliciano (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) and Nefertiti Charlene Altán (Oakland, California, USA), TERRESTRIAL is a multidisciplinary project that weaves together performance, choreography, speculative futurist thought and equity-based models of cooperation to re-calibrate social, cultural and physical existence.  

This multi-lingual, transgeographic space is a collaborative of Black, Indigenous and Mestiza artists from lands currently called “Brazil” and the “US.” Together, they are developing a body of performance-based time capsules that interweave imagined / half-truth / rumored / hyperbolized image fragments of Blackness and Indigeneity throughout the past several decades, patching together the plurality of these phenomena through invented court/ceremony dances situated in the very distant future.