LOOSE (2025)

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“For a tradition expresses, after all, nothing more

than the long and painful experience of a people;

it comes out of the battle waged to maintain 

their integrity or, to put it more simply,

out of their struggle to survive”

James Baldwin, “Notes of a Native Son”

LOOSE is a multidisciplinary performance exploring Black, queer, femme reflections on religious upbringings in Black churches. Sitting at the intersection of identity, politics, relation, and spirituality, LOOSE uses dance and sound as an exercise to exorcise formative experiences that feel at odds with one another. The work explores the grief of the metamorphosis of spaces and practices that were once considered home, the painfully ironic necessity of tradition as a mechanism for self actualization, and the stickiness of eternity. 

LOOSE is a reckoning, an intervention, a homecoming, and a homegoing.