Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023
Kaufman Hall 200
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
also streaming here: https://youtube.com/live/lRUsfIsBRs0?feature=share
World Arts and Cultures/Dance presents
The Alma Hawkins Visiting Chair Winter 2023 Lecture
By Jennifer Harge
let it get good and brown:
truncated and elongated seeds of Black girlhood
This performance-as-lecture features Detroit-based artist Jennifer Harge, 2023 Alma Hawkins Visiting Chair in World Arts and Culture/Dance. Told from the perspective of JJ LOVE, a Black auntie from the river, let it get good and brown underscores Harge’s application of Black feminist thought, Black temporalities, spirit work, and interiority in performance practice. Throughout the work, Harge explores desire, anger, and the hunger of the imagination. This is JJ LOVE’s first appearance since 2017.
This work is an extension of Harge’s FLY | DROWN, a 5-part fable series intimately situated within the context of Black femme flesh, imaginations, dreamscapes, prayers, and homes. The fables center Black flight: the process of Black flesh stealing away from constraint and declaring itself sovereign through spatial, corporeal, and spiritual agency.