UNTITLED DISTANCES
...is a multimedia choreographic expounding on Black futuring actions such as migration, ancestral calling, self transformation and reclaiming cultural residue. It references the African American tradition of "Ring Shout" - a spiritual time vessel of movement, sound and chanting that holds the past, present, and future simultaneously in its communal gesture.
...is a multimedia choreographic expounding on Black futuring actions such as migration, ancestral calling, self transformation and reclaiming cultural residue. It references the African American tradition of "Ring Shout" - a spiritual time vessel of movement, sound and chanting that holds the past, present, and future simultaneously in its communal gesture.
-- A Note from Jeremy --
This ring is a constellation of selves. An ever-expanding sphere of networks. A contradiction which is tangible in numbers, while relishing in individual exploration of the esoteric. Like Galactus, always longing for that by which it may grow and nurture itself.
Here, any number of its elements may be absent, free to explore other presents, allowing the ring to exist as a space independent of the self while wholly relying on many selves to maintain its being. That is, I am no more or less important than she whom is no more or less important than he whom is no more or less important than they whom are no more or less important than us.
Indeed, even by existing within a vacuum of rings along a continuum of what may be considered the time, the ring needs not physical bodies aligned to function.
That is, any agent of the ring might and should leave; this expression of the self, a shout, is one of many, yet necessary pronunciations. Divergent and important on their own, each gesture, each shout, each drop of sweat finds power at their convergence, at their grand intersection, reifying the circle; making real the ring.
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NEON CROSS
A crescendoing meditation on collective movement, migration, and ascension. The work references various African diaspora symbols, iconography, and folk traditions. Choreographer/Multimedia Projection Designer: André M. Zachery Composer/Sound Designer: Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste Lighting Designer: JC Moore Performers: Sarah Chien, Shiloh Hodges, Cameron McKinney, Candace Thompson, Nehemoyia Young. The RPG 2015 Season @ Irondale Center in Brooklyn. |
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DIGITAL MIDDLE PASSAGE
A solo about recoding identity during a time of literal and speculative transition. Time and space in regards to Black existence is suspended between two realms: one familiar and the other foreign. Choreographer/Multimedia Designer/Performer: André M. Zachery Composer: Ivonne K. Paredes Cellist: Ansel Cohen Sound Designer: Matthew Gantt Lighting Designer: JC Moore The RPG 2015 Season @ Irondale Center in Brooklyn. |
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HIDDEN TRACKS
Speculating on the theory of cultural residue, this work looks at the African diaspora practice of the "Ring Shout" as a spiritual time vessel - holding past, present, and future simultaneously in a single gesture. Choreographer/Multimedia Designer: André M. Zachery Composer/Sound Designer: Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste Lighting Designer: JC Moore Performers: Sarah Chien, Shiloh Hodges, Cameron McKinney, Candace Thompson, Nehemoyia Young The RPG 2015 Season @ Irondale Center in Brooklyn. |
Photo Gallery
photos by Keara Goape
Renegade Performance Group has been awarded the 2015 Community Arts Fund and Local Arts Support grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council for the development and future performances of The AFROFUTURISM Series.
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