In this work, I used digital tools in the choreographic process and in its performance. This continues my use of incorporating modified, real-time, live projection in the performance process, including through the use of the Isadora Program. This performance was a restaging at Middlesex University (London, UK) of an original work I created for Wayne State University (Detroit, USA). The piece was created in collaboration with the Ruth Ellis Center, Detroit, commenting on the importance and strength it takes to define yourself on your own terms, particularly how you want to engage with and define your relationship gender.
The piece is part of a series of four works all called ‘passing:…‘*. The series of dances all explore and reference different social-racial-political negotiations of identity, establishing one’s own identity. The first in the series ‘Passing: the price of a ticket‘ informed the Introductory chapter in the book Narratives in Black British Dance: Embodied Practices.
*Title inspired by the quote from James Baldwin ‘the price of the ticket’. I changed ‘the’ to ‘a’ because the word ‘the’ implies that the ticket is attainable at a cost. In the 21st Century, I question how available a ticket is to some people at all.
