In continued support of BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities, Dance Place and The Clarice's BlackLight Summit have partnered to present an exciting new drag show produced by haus of bambi. afterGLOW closes out the three-day 2023 BlackLight Summit with a glitter-filled, wig pulling, lip-syncing, drag celebration. Featuring performances from some of the DMV's most dynamic drag artists, afterGLOW affirms that the future is Black, queer, beautiful and happening now!
"When the dream was slaughtered and all that love and labor seemed to have come to nothing, we scattered... We knew where we had been, what we tried to do, who had cracked, gone mad, died, or been murdered around us... Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again." –James Baldwin
Movement Workshop with BlackLight Summit artist Michael J. Love.
BlackLight Summit artist Christian A. Warner leads a movement workshop. Pulling from codified modern techniques, ballet, floorwork and musical theatre styles, this workshop exists as a contemporary movement class that often explores a wide range of systems with an emphasis on strengthening the integrated mind and body. All abilities and levels welcome.
BlackLight Summit artist Symara Johnson leads a movement workshop. This class is in practice with your romantic present, a conversation that ignites the many parts within us to activate and shift our perceptions of the world. We take time to choose where we want to go and dive into our agency. Symara Johnson plays the role of a facilitator as she shares entrances and exits formulated through her own experience of being. You are invited to be whoever and whatever during this. All abilities and levels welcome!
"When the dream was slaughtered and all that love and labor seemed to have come to nothing, we scattered... We knew where we had been, what we tried to do, who had cracked, gone mad, died, or been murdered around us... Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again." –James Baldwin
As descendants of the diaspora, what is our role and responsibility of BIPOC Curators to guide consumers of performance through periods of deep loss?
BlackLight Summit artists Shanice Mason and Jamison Curcio lead a movement workshop on the last day of the 2023 summit. What does it mean to allow yourself to be? To be in control of time, space and energy? Explore the depths of your inner world through a guided music study that invites you to be in control of time and play, and allows you to be in your most present body. As a community we will map the space and unlock new doors together, leading us into a new world. Get ready for this adventure.
