This ongoing creative process, inspired by Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation, explores the double-edged causations of Caribbean cultural traditions through the lens of folkloric dance forms and their shared origins.
Choreographed and Conceived by: Marcel Santiago Marcelino
Prema Bangera
SACRED Return: Narratives of Transformative Love (DIVINE ANCESTRAL PORTRAITS OF YONI)
A ceremonial vision inspired by South India's Bhoota Kola to honor QTDBIPoC ancestors & uplift the global majority with art, poetry, movement.
Jenny Huang
弄堂印象 Nong Tang Impressions
弄堂印象 explores the evolving place and culture of Shanghai and Boston Chinatown. Through the POV of diaspora members, it tongles the relationship between spoken language--and physical space.
Yarumi González
The Magic Carpet- The Thread of Fate
An auto-ethnographic work exploring identity, migration, and the American Dream through poetic, performative acts revealing the soul’s endless journey of loss, play, and self-discovery.
Komadre Kathy
Mothering My Lineages
Mothering my Lineages explores how motherhood opens a portal to sacred remembrance. In our remembering, we patch our ancestors, ourselves, and future descendants back to wholeness.
Juliet Salameh
Wa Habibi
Wa Habibi explores diaspora Palestinians witnessing genocide while Palestinians at home endure the occupation’s denial of basic needs.
How do we collectively achieve self determination & liberation?
Intermission
Act 2
Aiden K. Marshall and sarah nichols
Blueprints and improv on Cello
This work is an artistic manifestation of stories and experiences of gender roles and queer identities across the African diaspora and through personal and ancestral histories.
Jireh Calo
wild woman
Wild Woman is a ritual piece the grounds in the connection to sacred, the reclamation of indigeneity, the living practice of the artist as healer, storyteller, and vessel for spirit.
Laila J. Franklin
evanescent
Evanescent explores discotheques as sites of collective queer identity formation through Afro-diasporic movement practices.
Angie Benitez / she moves + makes
INTERTWINED
Intertwined is a moving meditation of one body exploring transgenerational patterns of love, grief, and migration.
What wounds can we heal and what dreams can we hold for living and distant ancestors?
Wenxuan Xue
becoming ancestral mud
From the mud of the yellow river to the shore of Boston, from matrilineal papercutting to yangge procession, from ancestral memory to diasporic placekeeping, becoming ancestral mud is an ever-evolving ritual that explores the journey of returning to and imagining femme, spiritual lineage of Shaanbei.
Nahda Project
Love of Land عشق الأرص
A collective work by Nahda project exploring the interplay of separation and unity within the Arab diaspora.
