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  • PROFILE
    • Artistic Director
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    • Performers
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  • PROJECTS
    • The AFROFUTURISM Series >
      • Drexciya Redux: An Afrofuturist Cabaret
      • Holding Public Space: Recounting the Workrate of Black Women
      • Ephemera >
        • Virtual Season 2021
      • Untamed Space >
        • Weeksville Photo Series
        • Untamed Space Film
        • Wexner Center Media
      • Webbed Fugues
      • Untitled Distances
      • The Inscription Project
      • Carrefour
      • AERODROME
      • Power Source
      • Critical Discussion
    • Dapline!
    • Artistic Components >
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      • Site Specific Projects
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"Memory” has, is, and will continually be a faculty through which Black bodies in the American Diaspora have stored histories, legacies and informations. Our memories have been “programmed” by the circumstances in which our bodies have taken up spaces or more specifically, where we have been historically allowed to be. In essence, the Black body in Diaspora has not “moved” from a place of desire, but within a state of survival and preservation.

​Power Source, as an ongoing collaboration re-examining the relationship between Black movement and Black sound that asserts the desire for the Black body to “update” and “re-program” its memory. Where Black movement is initiated with the purpose of inserting and infecting the literal, figurative, corporeal, spiritual, metaphysical and digital space. Without acknowledging the gaze, waiting for permission or seeking approval. The future memories of the Black body in Diaspora must now be cultivated and sustained by the energy found within collective efforts across perspective, spectrums, and dimensions. We are using these practices as frameworks for interdisciplinary explorations in performance.

The work is shaped by choreography and digital projections designed by André M. Zachery and the sonic texture of sound artist Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste. Using multi-camera body capturing, projection-mapping and sound interaction, the media is used to explore relationships of power through the manipulation of the image from the movement of the body. Collaboratively, we re-adapt and re-imagine images, sounds, and at times texts to pose the question through the Black body “what is to come next?”
prelude 2015
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Renegade Performance Group is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a 501©3 umbrella organization.
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