Video Versions of Stages of Tectonic Blackness

Written By ABQ Dance Connect

We are excited to share good news about Stages of Tectonic Blackness, a project conceived by member Miles Tokunow with collaborators Nikesha Breeze, Lazarus Nance Letcher and MK. It reckons with Blackness and geology through dance, music, and social practice.

Following their successful performance in New Mexico, they received an outpouring of support and interest.

Co-creators Nikesha Breeze and MK were commissioned to develop two video versions of the work for:

  • Richard Levy Gallery (New Mexico) in the exhibition CHARCOAL: Strokes of Vitality.

  • A.I.R. Gallery (New York) in the 14th A.I.R. Biennial: An Ahistorical Daydream.

As a durational practice of Black queer resistance, this work tarries with the paralleled processes of dehumanization and extraction, emergence and rebellion, as sustained by Black bodies and rock bodies.

  • CONCEIVED & PERFORMED by Miles Tokunow, Nikesha Breeze and Lazarus Nance Letcher

  • MUSIC by Lazarus Nance Letcher

  • COSTUMES by Nikesha Breeze

  • CREATED with/for geologic formations of Piedra Lisa Trail, Albuquerque, NM on Tiwa territory (September 2020) 

  • PHOTOS and VIDEO by MK

  • PRODUCED by Sarah Ashkin and Brittany Delany

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