Performance, Presentation, and Identity

This two week interdisciplinary workshop will examine identity in performance and presentation through an anti-racist lens of code-switching, colonialism, structural racism, systemic erasure, forced migration, resistance, and liberation. Students will collaborate and create characters based off of their cultural background and intersectional identities as well as imagine how they could exist in the future via costumes, movement, integrated media, and character development. Notions of time and time-travel will be experimented with under the umbrellas of Afrofuturism/Retro-Afrofuturism, mythology, and sci-fi to collectively dream and create a liberated future for BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and marginalized communities.