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What Remains is a collaboration between poet and MacArthur Fellow Claudia Rankine, choreographer Will Rawls (recipient of the 2017 Bessie Award for Outstanding Emerging Choreographer), and filmmaker John Lucas.
Through movement, language, and video What Remains invites us across the threshold of a historical void, creating an immersive environment from the idea of an entombed imagination, and responding to violence and disappearance with a resonant, ghostly chorus.
“One thing about being black in America—you have to curtail your movements, to live in such a way that what the white gaze projects upon blackness will not end your life,” says Rankine to the New York Times. “So you’re always thinking, can I walk at night?…Can I have my cell phone out? If it glitters, will someone think it’s a gun? At what point can I just be?”
Co-presented by Danspace Project and French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) as part of the Crossing The Line Festival 2018
Through movement, language, and video What Remains invites us across the threshold of a historical void, creating an immersive environment from the idea of an entombed imagination, and responding to violence and disappearance with a resonant, ghostly chorus.
“One thing about being black in America—you have to curtail your movements, to live in such a way that what the white gaze projects upon blackness will not end your life,” says Rankine to the New York Times. “So you’re always thinking, can I walk at night?…Can I have my cell phone out? If it glitters, will someone think it’s a gun? At what point can I just be?”
Co-presented by Danspace Project and French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) as part of the Crossing The Line Festival 2018
Age Guidance: 13
Show Notes: No Intermission
Audience Advisory:
Please arrive on time. There is no late seating for this performance All 4 performances of What Remains are now SOLD OUT. A wait list will begin at the door each night at 7:15pm.
Performance Schedule:
TUESDAY, THURSDAY thru SATURDAY @ 8 PM
Music
Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, with Will Rawls
Written by
Claudia Rankine
Choreography
Will Rawls
