An Expectation of Violence and Other Dances, Feb. 18-20, 2010 at Joyce SoHo NYC

ABOUT AN EXPECTATION OF VIOLENCE 
Click here to purchase tickets.

At times wild and heavily kinetic, this work is part confessional and part living-history.  I've been obsessed with the various ways the past becomes current.  A line from a poem I wrote specifically for this piece entitled "Spirits of the Dead or Les Esprits de la Mort", read in French by Jodi Obeid states,
"It's a sign not to be ignored
when the past pushes further
into the present than the present,
when memories and premonitions parallel,
when the ghosts speak back
the way they do now."

I'm finding that there are many ghosts in this piece.  The content is very personal and at times dysfunctional, so with using a kind of anti-structure or dysfunctional structure, ideally the content becomes stronger and is made even more vivid.  Movement themes delve into the intricacies of personal and public violence.  Accompanying the movement is an original soundtrack by Mikaal Sulaiman with poems written by Jaamil Olawale Kosoko.
Including Special Guest Performances by: 
Melanie Stewart, Sydney Skybetter, Anthony Whitehurst, Gabrielle Revlock, REACT/DANCE, and more. 

This performance is made possible, in part, by KOSOKO PERFORMANCE GROUP, The Joyce Theater Foundation, which owns and operates Joyce SoHo and the PEW Center for Arts and Heritage through Dance Advance.