PRELUDE—WE BEGIN WITH PLAY considers the phantoms of public space and the paradox of Black political representation. The work is sited in appropriated places, temporal spaces, and everyday sites of the mundane.
In these sites Collaborators will work as an ensemble to compose, design, perform and install immersive guerilla theatre, direct actions, and environmental landscapes. In each location, the circus will highlight the core tensions in the current political, economic, cultural, and ecological moment, while amplifying the Black surreal within the space/time/place continuum and returning to the central question Hortense Spillers raises in her work, The Idea of Black Culture. "If Black culture is critical culture," Spillers posits, "perhaps it is an unfinished project."
NOW PLAYING:
DON CHERRY, "ELIXIR"
ORGANIC MUSIC SOCIETY
libretto excerpt:
Trapped in a long-standing intergalactic game of chance, a TRIXSTA and an EMPIRE face-off once again in their 500+ year battle to win the bodies, minds and souls of MARVELOUS. From one era to the next they cross multiple spaces, places, and ecosystems, and still, neither a TRICKSTER nor an EMPIRE can claim complete victory. The rise of a new kourt, a band of nitwits, heightens the stakes. A TRICKSTER must devise a winning strategy…
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