NEW WORK PREVIEw: TRIBE

Thursday, October 30

In this open rehearsal, get an intimate glimpse into the making of TRIBE’s newest multidisciplinary work, Marks of RED, featuring six dancers and collaborative designers. A work of magical realism narrated by and featuring viewpoints of six women, Marks of RED continues award-winning choreographer Shamel Pitts’s research exploring Black embodiment, aliveness, and human connection. Marks of RED is an Afrofuturistic meditation on the “womb space,” divining the effect that memory has on our experiences, senses, bodies, reality, and our imaginative possibilities.

The multidisciplinary work includes scenic designs by Mimi Lien, projection lights by Lucca Del Carlo, and production by TRIBE arts collective. The fourth chapter in the RED Series by Pitts, Marks of RED explores the nuanced multiplicity and deep complexity of self-expression, and the perceived spaces for regeneration, enfoldment, implosion, rupture, and potential.

TRIBE’s mission is cultivating a space of discovery and a platform for artist—most specifically artists of color—with huge inspiration from the Afrofuturism movement. This movement states that we have a responsibility through our work to tell new stories and create a brighter future that is different, and shines more luminously, from our past.

A Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary arts collective, TRIBE was founded by MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow Shamel Pitts in December 2019. The collective is composed of international and local artists working across mediums such as movement, choreography, digital storytelling, lighting design, video mapping projection, poetry, spoken word, cinematography, scenography, dramaturgy, costume styling, and music composition.