A Beast That Came Apart Mid-Air

This work-in-progress performance features excerpts from A Beast That Came Apart Mid-Air, a new dance-theater production. A Beast That Came Apart Mid-Air follows three Black femmes of the diaspora as they navigate history and reimagine possibilities for liberation through magical realism and resistance. Unfolding across the Black American landscape of survival, these characters repurpose resilience in a cathartic process of dismantling power. Through immersive storytelling, possibilities arise as they ask, “What if disempowered people could manifest their visions?”  

The performance features scenes developed during Kayla Farrish and collaborators’ residency at The Pocantico Center that combine dance, theater, film, memory, and archive.

Following the performance, the artists will lead a community-building discussion with the audience on how we can create the conditions that will support us today and in the future. 

This event will be followed by a reception in the DR Center Gallery, now showing Woven Wonders: Kykuit’s Picasso Tapestries.

Guests may arrive 45 minutes prior to the event start time to enjoy the new Sculpture Walk outside the DR Center. Please note that events will begin promptly at their scheduled start time. Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of staff.

Presented in partnership with CUNY Dance Initiative.

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