World Premiere - Duke Performances April 15-16, 2022
New York Premiere - BAM Next Wave Festival, November 1-5, 2022
Embarqued: Stories of Soil is a dance-theatre work based in excavation of self and country, created in textiles, skin tones, labor, land, humor and moving bodies. The work centers around a transformative ship that invites reflection of our shared history and interrogates our relationships with memorialization.
Inspired by the discovery of the African American Heritage trail on Martha's Vineyard, - still a living, evolving memorial site - heroic stories of survival, loss and resilience unfold through an integration of lighting, sound, textiles and movement, each element complementing and adding to the rich layering of storytelling at the heart of the work. The lushly envisioned landscape connects people and places through a time continuum revealing post colonial phantoms and the mythologies that still hold sway today.
Embarqued: Stories of Soil Trailer
Embarqued: Stories of Soil Documentary
Embarqued: Stories of Soil received commissioning support from ArtYard and the Baryshnikov Arts Center. Embarqued was created through critical research and creative residencies provided by ArtYard, Duke Performances at Duke University, and The Yard in Chilmark, MA, in partnership with Martha's Vineyard Museum and Martha's Vineyard African American Heritage Trail.
Embarqued was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project has received additional support from Jerome Robbins Foundation and New Music USA.
