Dancer, choreographer, and Harlem Stage WaterWorks Established Artist, nia love, and her company present a work-in-progress showing of UNDERcurrents, invites audiences to probe the seam between catastrophic history and quotidian memory and tend the textures of generational care.
Of the performance and her larger body of inquiry nia love says, “The center of gravity in my work is the question of blackness and the complexity held within the experiences it names: resistance, virtuosity, breaking, hypermobility, inordinate constraint. I aim to destabilize and dismantle ‘dance,’ redressing it as gesture—the memory of movement and geographies held in the body. My work gets made under the viewer’s gaze: interfaces between the audience, my flesh, and the object-sonic environment, produces experimental flows of real-time visceral response and improvisatory action. I craft for the stage and beyond: galleries, gardens, farms, and most recently, the ocean floor.”
