A Beast That Came Apart Mid-Air

A Beast That Came Apart Mid-Air  is an Afrosurrealist dance-theater performance taking shape as a visual mixtape through movement, voice, narrative, film, folktale, and spiritual during a reckoning. Conjuring Marron stories, six characters who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color travel across time transforming historic resistance into wielding power. Awakened, they reimagine new futures of liberation—untethering from the beast.  

The performance features scenes developed during Kayla Farrish and collaborators’ residency at The Pocantico Center that combine dance, theater, film, memory, and archive.

Following the performance, the artists will lead a community-building discussion with the audience on how we can create the conditions that will support us today and in the future. 

This event will be followed by a reception in the DR Center Gallery, now showing Woven Wonders: Kykuit’s Picasso Tapestries.

Guests may arrive 45 minutes prior to the event start time to enjoy the new Sculpture Walk outside the DR Center. Please note that events will begin promptly at their scheduled start time. Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of staff.

Presented in partnership with CUNY Dance Initiative.

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