On the Boards

On the Boards presents [siccer] by Will Rawls from September 28-30, 2023, at the Merrill Wright Theatre. Through a dance performance and accompanying video installation, Will Rawls invites us to consider the ways in which Black bodies are relentlessly documented, distorted, and circulated in the media. In [siccer], Will Rawls experiments with stop-motion, a filmmaking technique in which still photographs are strung together to produce a moving image. The project's title is driven by the usage of “[sic],” a Latin adverb which indicates incorrect spelling within a quotation. [sic] is often employed to contrast Black vernacular with standard English. Upturning this perceived conflict, [siccer] illuminates the verbal, physical play that marks how Black performance actively eludes capture and speculates on the potential for collective strategies of narrating the world, uncorrected.