Slow Dark Dances 2022

slow dark dances is a durational dance and film installation by choreographer Maurya Kerr and cinematographer Alexa Burrell that seeks to uncolonize the “invisible” whiteness of museum spaces. Building on the legacies of Black joy as a form of resistance, slow dark dances is an insurrection of quietude, rebellion as slow sway, and deep listening between Black bodies as a reparative act. The performance takes place throughout the museum building for six hours each day, 12-6PM. At 5PM each day, the public is invited to participate in a collective slow dance, alone or with a friend, in the Crane Forum.

Dancers include: Karah Abiog, Styles Alexander, Alaja Badalich, Alexander Diaz, Shareen Deryan, Josh Francique, Audrey Johnson , Maurya Kerr, Gregory King, Nyah Malone, David Rue, Chafin Seymour, Kayla Smaw, Linda Steele II, Tyra Wallace, Angel Warden-Palmer, and Olivia Winston

Directed by Maurya Kerr

Cinematography and Editing by Alexa Burrell

Dec 2022