Intersection for the Arts

Try/Step/Trip is a fusion between concept musical and performance parable - narrated in verse, populated by archetypes, and aesthetically and thematically framed by the Black American tradition of Stepping. The play subverts the conventional story structure of Black male criminalization in order to de-normalize the ritual of it. We are creating a film version of the play and integrating it into a new media-based project called “Adapting History”.

Adapting History is an oral telling of American music through history and American history through music. From gospel to blues, jazz to R&B, America has produced some of the most innovative music of the 20th century.