Rakia seaborn: A ruin
April 16 - 18, 2020
Tickets: $20.00
Tickets: $20.00
Following a catastrophic climate disaster, three black women are tasked with rewriting America. Inspired by Giselle's madness, classical mythology, and breakup albums, dance artist Rakia Seaborn crafts a surrealist, wasteland by inverting and decaying 1970’s Eastern European ballet mined from Youtube, ancient relics, and personal travel diaries. Through embodying, writing and speaking incantations for survival, what emerges is an entirely new way of speaking/feeling/dancing American. With eyes simultaneously fixed on American history, the present desolation, and a potentially utopian future wrapped in softness & safety, will this triumvirate rebuild....or nah?
Performance Dates and Times:
All performances begin at 8:00pm EST
Thursday, April 16th
Friday, April 17th
Saturday, April 18th
Tickets
$20.00 Tickets available HERE.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Rakia Seaborn is a native of Detroit, and a writer, choreographer and performer whose work has appeared at Dixon Place, La Mama E.T.C., The Tank, AUNTS, chashama, JACK and Brooklyn Studios for Dance. Seaborn has worked with Kathy Westwater, Dianne McIntyre, Rashaun Mitchell, Jodi Melnick, and Meta-Phys Ed. She graduated from Oberlin College in 2007, earning a Bachelors of Art in Dance with a concentration in Choreography, and in 2014, she gained an MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College. Seaborn is a 2018 Mertz Gilmore Late Stage Creative Stipend recipient.
Photo Credit: Jeremy Allen-Arney
Performance Dates and Times:
All performances begin at 8:00pm EST
Thursday, April 16th
Friday, April 17th
Saturday, April 18th
Tickets
$20.00 Tickets available HERE.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Rakia Seaborn is a native of Detroit, and a writer, choreographer and performer whose work has appeared at Dixon Place, La Mama E.T.C., The Tank, AUNTS, chashama, JACK and Brooklyn Studios for Dance. Seaborn has worked with Kathy Westwater, Dianne McIntyre, Rashaun Mitchell, Jodi Melnick, and Meta-Phys Ed. She graduated from Oberlin College in 2007, earning a Bachelors of Art in Dance with a concentration in Choreography, and in 2014, she gained an MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College. Seaborn is a 2018 Mertz Gilmore Late Stage Creative Stipend recipient.
Photo Credit: Jeremy Allen-Arney
