"When our lived experience of theorizing is fundamentally linked to processes of self-recovery, of collective liberation, no gap exists between theory and practice. Indeed, what such experience makes more evident is the bond between the two – that ultimately reciprocal process wherein one enables the other. Theory is not inherently healing, liberatory, or revolutionary. It fulfills this function only when we ask that it do so and direct our theorizing towards this end."
bell hooks, "Theory as a Liberatory Practice"
It is radical imagination.
It is a space walk.
It is spidering and it is futuring.
It is mourning and it is inviting those we have lost to join us in our bodies, in our space, and in our journey.
It is holding one another through witnessing when touch is unavailable.
It is turning internal landscapes outward.
choreography: Laila J. Franklin, in collaboration with cast
performers: Jaki Bass, Laila J. Franklin, Ianka Hou
music: Daniel Nerger
costume design: Juliana Waechter & Laila J. Franklin
lighting design: Kim Fain
videography: Katie Phelan
editing: Laila J. Franklin
stage manager: Jennifer Sandgathe
material archive: Keren Alfred
World Premiere:
Digital Release, April 2021
Developed in fulfillment of a Masters of Fine Arts in Dance, University of Iowa
Photo by Miranda Meyer
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