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Grief Love: A Theatrical Performance (Virtual)
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Artist-Scholar Shanaé Burch (she/her) teams up with Director-Dramaturg Des Bennett (they/them) to co-conceive a solo performance project as an artistic component of her dissertation in order to document coming to understand life and Black creativity in juxtaposition to premature death. In this virtual theatrical performance that mindfully blends the procedurally-authored aesthetics of a play with testimony and stories of homegoings and ancestral recall, the artists have prepared an experience that facilitates the holding of grief as a sacred ritual for health and wellbeing. Through the lens of self, community, and society, Shanaé invites the audience to participate in reflecting on family, creativity, and “good health” while motivated by health equity. In a bricolage of song, movement, words, and celestial glimmerings, we greet the stress of what gets underneath our skin and reckon with the all too familiar textures of Grief Love.
This presentation of a work in progress will be followed by a dialogue between the artists and audience.
New Jersey Arts Events for the National Day of Racial Healing are made possible in part by The Creating Change Network, a collaborative program of New Jersey Theatre Alliance and ArtPride New Jersey, in partnership with the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Center at Rutgers University - Newark. The activities of the Creating Change Network are supported by the Grunin Foundation.
See the full lineup of New Jersey Arts Events celebrating the National Day of Racial Healing at https://jerseyarts.com/ndorh
The Creating Change Network is a collaboration between New Jersey Theatre Alliance and ArtPride New Jersey, the state’s two largest arts service organizations, with a mission to build a more equitable, just, accessible, and anti-racist arts community in New Jersey.
Guided by a steering committee of arts professionals and social justice leaders, the Creating Change Network offers ongoing opportunities for learning and collaboration to move the arts sector forward. The Creating Change Network is committed to the long-term endeavor of shifting culture, empowering leaders, sharing strategies, ensuring accountability, and sustaining hope so that individuals and organizations can progress in this work.
The activities of the Creating Change Network are supported by the Grunin Foundation.
