Choreography by Orlando Zane Hunter Jr. and Ricarrdo Valentine
Dramaturgy by Nadine George-Graves
Text: Nadine George Graves, Orlando Zane Hunter, Jr, and Ricarrdo Valentine
Projection Integration by Delaney McDonough
Projection Design by Tim Fielder
Costume Design by Brother(hood) Dance! And Tenille McMillian / NAKIMULI
Music: Acid Blues, Burning Spears, Fountain Hues, Uncle Billy Ray, Lauren Mulva, Death, Sizzla, Moses Sumney, Life (movie), Michael Smith, Tanzania farm workers, The Abyssinians, Burger King Commercial 1974
Associate Lighting Design by Elizabeth M. Stewart
Photos by Scott Shaw
A multi-disciplinary mediation exploring the identities of individual Black men relating to provocative themes like origins, nourishment, heritage, nature, sexuality, and technology in the 21st century. It is a bio-mythography that uses multi-media, dance, and storytelling to engage the audience in the personal journeys of two men who question and investigates the memory, life, death, and connection to their ancestors. This work lies at the nexus of environmental justice, the degradation of the Black family identity, and the government’s role in agricultural and media production. Ultimately, the omnipresence of the men’s mothers slips through time and space in unexpected ways, guiding the men in very different directions. These are not stories of Black men that we think we know. We challenge assumptions, provoke rethinking, and are unafraid to take on all of our demons around race, gender, sexuality, and “brotherhood”.
