The artist Robert Smalls describes his work as primitive surrealism. He explains that his art is best defined verbally by the literary definition of these …

Known for creating groundbreaking choreographies that explore the social constructions that surround disabled bodies, Bill Shannon’s latest work combines movement, wearable projection technology and video installation to explore the significant and often subtle implications of physical human contact in the digital era. Touch Update “reverse engineers” Shannon’s virtuosic technique for dancing on crutches, as he dissects and dismantles the multiple online identities we create in order to mask and manipulate our lived experience.

Jumatatu M. Poe and Dallas-based J-Sette artist Donte Beacham present Let ‘im Move You: This is a Formation. Featuring a gender-diverse cast of Black performers, this new dance work addresses choreographic, emotional, and spiritual forms present within J-Sette and other Black, queer dance vocabularies.With live-constructed music and media design, This is a Formation confronts historic imaginations and limitations of: art institutions centering White aesthetics, and outdoor spaces within predominantly Black neighborhoods. Culminating a 7-year collaboration, jumatatu and Donte propose both real and imaginary possibilities of Black performing humans organized in assembly.