Performance
Friday, June 5
7:30p
$10 suggested donation

ICU: I AM U is a choreo-poem and embodied inquiry that explores time as a living, relationalfield rather than a linear progression. Rooted in African cosmologies and resonant with quantumthought, the work begins from the understanding that past, present, and future selves coexist—continually shaping, informing, and speaking to one another.This residency is an invitation to listen deeply to those conversations. Drawing from archivalmaterials such as poetry written in my teenage years, contemporary texts from my currentadulthood, and emergent movement scores, song, and storytelling, I seek to build a performativeworld where my younger self, present self, and elder self meet—not as separate chapters, but assimultaneous truths. The work asks: What wisdom was I already carrying as a child? Whatquestions am I still holding as an adult? What guidance does my elder self offer from a futurethat already exists?During the residency, I am less interested in arriving at a fixed product than in creating theconditions for something honest to be birthed. This may take the form of focused attention on asingle temporal self, or it may reveal itself through layered dialogues across time. The residencyoffers the essential resource this work requires: space—to move, to write, to sing, to remember,and to listen for what wants to emerge.

 

ICU: I AM U is ultimately an act of self-witnessing and self-recognition, exploring how lineage,memory, and imagination live in the body. Through this process, I aim to deepen achoreographic language that honors multiplicity, continuity, and the radical tenderness of seeingoneself across time.