Makini
TERRESTRIAL: The Sprout
Mar 14 Stay Late Discussion
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.
Performed by Majesty Royale-Jackson
Choreographed by Makini
The Live Feed creative residency program is supported in part by Partners for New Performance.
TERRESTRIAL: The Sprout is a Creative Capital project and has been supported through a Guggenheim Fellowship. The project is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project cocommissioned by Dance Place, New York Live Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Radical Healing, and NPN. For more information www.npnweb.org. The project has also been developed in partnerships with Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts’ Caroline Hearst Choreographer-In-Residence Program and the Black Performance Institute of University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, the project received support from the Durham Arts Council.
This project was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and Durham Arts Council, local grants administrator.
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