RESIDENCY
How We Danced Our Way Back Home
CultureHub
47 Great Jones Street
3rd Floor
New York, NY 10012
January 12, 2024
7pm & 8pm ET
January 13, 2024
1pm & 2pm ET
In-Person
Free / Donate
This interdisciplinary VR performance ritual follows a group of masqueraders through the Atlantic on an oceanic journey to memorialize the lives lost during the Middle Passage.
This iteration of How We Danced Our Way Back Home emerges from the collaborative efforts of Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde, Amir Denzel Hall, André M. Zachery and the Renegade Performance group. Drawing inspiration from masquerade traditions from Nigeria, Trinidad and Tobago, and across the African diaspora, the performance manifests as a technoritualist experience emphasizing the importance of remembering the enduring legacy of the trans-atlantic trade in enslaved Africans.
Credits
Performers
Ebony Webster, Kyneijee Wubah, Lay’la K. Rogers, Amir Denzel Hall
Co-Directed by
André M. Zachery, Amir Denzel Hall and Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde
Choreography by
André M. Zachery
Sound and Projection Design
Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde
Script by
Amir Denzel Hall
Lighting Design
DeAndra Anthony
VR Design
Sangmin Chae
Original Music by
Agbontaen Aisosa et. al
Aje Samson
Featuring Music by
Nadia Batson
Costumes by
Amir Hall
Aje Samson
Costume Construction by
Larry Richardson
Kimberly Johnson
Barbara Erin Delo
This project is supported within the CultureHub Residency program.