RUPTURE

DIASPORADICA is a process-based work by jose e. abad, Styles Alexander, Gabriele Christian, Clarissa Rivera Dyas, and Stephanie Hewett. This project is a three-hour choreographic experiment comprised of a Kickback, Performance, and Function. Blurring the lines between Black sociality, spectatorship, and performance, this work examines Black gatherings that center collective rest, folk games, somatic experimentation, and the creation of communal dance spaces as spiritual technologies and practices of resistance and refusal. This work is invested in strengthening and developing intergenerational networks of care for queer Black performance artists across the diaspora.

Caretakers of Land/Land Acknowledgement: Ramaytush Ohlone 

Estimated Artist Fee: $25,000/ Performance weekend; $40,000/ Week-long Residency (Community Classes + Performance)