Current Works
T.W.E.R.K.
by Michelle Grant-Murray and Dancers
T.W.E.R.K. an afro-futuristic exploratory work that generates awareness surrounding Transnational artistic dance Works and practices that Evoke Revolutionary Kinship. Four Women enter a mystical portal through a train ride to explore diverse times, spaces, places to engage within their authentic stories of existence, struggle, and liberation. The movement, and characterization represents the ancestral memories of movement as storytelling, utilizing the physical body as a repository of history, culture, philosophy, and shared knowledge. Participants and performers experience a journey of time and space that increases socialization, empathy, and awareness of diverse cultures, philosophical understanding, and artistic forms that shape and edify the diversity of South Florida.
"RoseWater" by Michelle Grant-Murray
RoseWater
I believe that Environmental Racism is the root of all climate crises. It remains the most important component of Earth Ethics. Social Justice is centered around our relationship to one another and nature as one . The ways and paths in which we choose to engage with the environment sets the tone for future generations. The choices we make (take) in communication with the Earth impact the impending routes of existence. The clear execution of caring for Earth calls for a radical conjuring employed by ancestral memory, ritual, and Being! The theoretical, philosophical, cultural, and practicum performativity of caring for Earth has to BE a means of existence. The sensibilities of seeing, tasting, hearing, touching, smelling and intuition are at the forefront of Respect for Life! At this present moment, we are at a time of transformation, healing, restoration, and liberation. We must gather our thoughts, actions, and intentions to generate a global restoration that serves as medicine for the physical, mental, intellectual, cultural, philosophical, and historical traumas that have plagued the earth for hundreds of years. We must render our sensibilities to create a new way of doing, being, gathering, and moving! Mother Earth is waiting.
RoseWater explores, reckons and grapples with the climate change issues of Environmental Racism as the root cause of Water Ethics issues, Generational Gentrification, and Carbon Footprint. Currently, we are existing in a 21st century global pandemic that has shifted the experiences and performativity of dance and art making. Dance is a universal means of communication and a primary source of life. The virtual space and diverse platforms of communication have drastically changed in the past year. Modalities of communication now include main rooms, breakout rooms, group chats, private chats, and a conjuring of time, space, and place. In this experience of RoseWater, we will explore sustainable practices that live as dance rituals of sustainability.
RoseWater explores, reckons and grapples with the climate change issues of Environmental Racism as the root cause of Water Ethics issues, Generational Gentrification, and Carbon Footprint. Currently, we are existing in a 21st century global pandemic that has shifted the experiences and performativity of dance and art making. Dance is a universal means of communication and a primary source of life. The virtual space and diverse platforms of communication have drastically changed in the past year. Modalities of communication now include main rooms, breakout rooms, group chats, private chats, and a conjuring of time, space, and place. In this experience of RoseWater, we will explore sustainable practices that live as dance rituals of sustainability.
