DOCILE and A BEAST BY KAYLA FARRISH

Saturday, September 20, 7 PM
Sunday, September 21, 2 PM
$25 General Admission
$15 Students with ID
$40 for both Kayla Farrish + Ayodele Casel
90 minutes with 10-minute intermission
Black Box Theater, Studio Complex (indoors)

Photo by Luke Myers

Two brand-new works from the insatiable dancemaker Kayla Farrish (2024 Annual Festival, Limón Dance Company commissioned choreographer) that draw on Black histories, jazz’s reimagination, and magical realism.

DOCILE is a study on untaming, a play on light and darkness, inspired by James Baldwin’s seminal questioning Notes of a Native Son as he bridged the decision of finding freedom outside of America’s borders or returning home in the 1960s to commit himself to resistance movements. Turning towards and colliding with a vibration of freedom, this work witnesses a Black woman in a discovery of truth and a journey of release, asking “What transformation and wildness is possible in reclamation and seeing our full humanity?”

A Beast is an intimate and eruptive conversation between two people as they make sense of one another. They hold one another and listen, opening up to greater depth and feeling. Their words and songs spill into flight and physical risk. They uncover their personal power within, unraveling and finding themselves through the confrontation.

The performance on Saturday, September 20, will include a post-show artist talk led by fellow festival artist Ayodele Casel.

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