COMPANY REPERTOIRE
The Declaration Series is a four-part work that takes the audience on a journey from coming-of-age and nature vs. nurture to our relationship with ourselves and our home. The four works (Identifying, Space Between, I Define, and My Petition) feature different individuals sharing their unique experiences as women in America, listening to one another’s “declarations” and finding the Venn diagram of their shared experiences without downplaying their own. Three of the five American anthems are woven into the transitions, alluding to the Constitutional association with the word “declaration.” The final piece, My Petition, explores how to love where they are through the difficulty of unrequited devotion.
This work questions the first days of Adam and Eve. MB, an abbreviation of Moor Beginnings, is an anthology of expression highlighting what our history must have felt like. In an effort to be inclusive in humanity’s collective beginnings, we use MB to allow others to see themselves and their origins, exploring the physical and emotional arc of entities in space and demonstrating through discovery the harmony that must exist between them for the survival of the whole yet to come.
Safe Space expands
upon the original, singular concept that displays
this journey from the perspective of the community.
When confronting the truth, leaning into the
community is a matter of survival. The work
highlights the unburdening that results when a safe
space within the community is made. TDE
challenges social constructs of how people of
different ages, genders, and familial roles are
conditioned to process loss.
Two Hearts explores love, connection, and balance.
This work is an investigation into the world of friends and the internal/external barriers established to serve as a source of protection and survival. Barriers builds and divides the space as a way to create visible and visceral connections.
COLLEGE REPETOIRE
(FOR RESTAGING & COMMISSIONING)
The Dream Colour
Presented at EMIA 2024
Navigating grief’s stages and acknowledging the foundation of our upbringing explains why this work begins and ends with gospel music. The church is synonymous with how we access, release and share our collective and communal grief.
Wabash 64130 is a work that introduces “The Stella Seven'' which are: Winston’s mother, Georgia Marie Birks Brown, and her 6 older siblings. Wabash 64130 also shines a light on their unique relationships to each other, as they were all born within a 10 year timeframe. The initial inspiration came from images (photographs) found of the 7 siblings, imagining the moments that happened prior to and after those images were captured.
