Holly Bass, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Jennifer Harge, Ursula Payne, Crystal Michelle Perkins, and Vershawn Sanders-Ward

Archiving Black Performance: Roots and Futures is an intimate performances by Holly Bass, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Jennifer Harge, Ursula Payne, Crystal Michelle Perkins, and Vershawn Sanders-Ward, created in residence at the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Dance Notation Bureau Extension Center at Ohio State. This renowned group of Black women choreographers will share the stage after a week-long residency exploring the importance of Black women choreographers and dancers in the 21st century. These celebrated artists will perform on the Wex’s black box stage for the first time ever to explore Black geographies and futures in community. 

This performance is a component of a larger, multiyear project created by Perkins and Valarie Williams to elevate the dances of Black women choreographers and performers as represented through Black lives and Black bodies. Stay after for a postperformance talk, which will be recorded for Archiving Black Performance’s growing public digital archive.

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Crystal Michelle Perkins, photo: Scott Robbins