The Critical Engagement Series brings together audiences & performance makers in hopes to reveal some of the mystery surrounding the language around dance & the unique practices of individual performance makers. We start with the question: What does the choreographer need at this particular moment in their process & how might this also serve the wider community?

For this next Critical Engagement Series we experience Sarah-Lu Baker’s work in progress: A Salable Hark Lure: The Unraveling.

A Salable Hark Lure: The Unraveling is a choreographic triptych. It is the second section of the triptych- Whitewashed. This multimedia performance work integrates live original music, movement, and projection to explore how research into personal and collective ancestry both informs and might interrupt white supremacy culture. The piece is directed by choreographer Sarah-Luella Baker based on her personal desire to process these themes through the artistic process. Using the sub-themes of female/earth trauma, toxic masculinity/femininity, capitalism, and animism, the artists create a thought-provoking world that is sustained somewhere between the past and the future. Collaborators include Rebecca Pierce Rall, Celine Bouly, Gina James, Vanessa Hopkins, and Nancy Ellis.

Join us on February 21st , Friday at 8pm to experience what Sarah-Lu and collaborators have been working on/with. We watch and afterwards we discuss over drinks + Food. $5-$15 (sliding scale)