CIRCLES (In process)

CIRCLES (In Process)

Black Joy. Fem. Cycles of Life and Love.
CIRCLES is an evening-length dance work in response to white supremacy and its effects in Black lives today. Combining dance, visual arts, and an original soundtrack, the work presents snapshots of popular culture through Choreographer Staycee Pearl’s lens as a mid-career Black woman. Featuring an ensemble of five dancers, CIRCLES offers a path to self reclamation. The visual arts component will be developed by Bekezela Mguni and Staycee Pearl, drawing from their experiences as Black women. The soundtrack is being created by Herman Pearl in collaboration with a diverse roster of Black Women and Queer club music artists.

CIRCLES will have its world premiere in October 2021 at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, co-presented by KST.

Staycee R. Pearl / Lead Artist
Herman B. Pearl / Sound Designer/Engineer
Lighting Design/Peter Mitchell

Performers (2020 In-Progress showing at *BIFOLD: An An Evening of Works with Sidra Bell Dance New York & Staycee Pearl dance project & Soy Sos): LaTrea Derome, Joy-Marie Thompson, Jessica Marino

*BIFOLD was presented by Sidra Bell

CIRCLES is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Kelly Strayhorn Theater, The Joyce Theater, and NPN. More information: www.npnweb.org. CIRCLES was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Co-presenting Partners are Kelly Strayhorn Theater, August Wilson African American Cultural Center, and The Joyce Theater.