Solo: A Festival of Dance explores the solo as a rebellious act of self-expression.
The 2020 festival will feature an evening length program that includes performances from all five solo artists each night. In addition to these regularly scheduled performances there will be additional day-time and late-night programing co-curated with Dani Tirrell that will happen throughout the OtB building.
The 2020 Solo Artists:
Jade Solomon Curtis
Jumatatu Poe
Adrienne Truscott
Marianna Valencia
Allie Hankins
Salt
Creation and performance by jumatatu m. poe
Metronome designed by EUMLab
Plastic by RiteAid HOME
Creation and performance by jumatatu m. poe
Metronome designed by EUMLab
Plastic by RiteAid HOME
I see this work as a lil’ cousin to my solo, Android Tears, which I was working on at one of the more difficult creative moments of my artistic life. Through these two works, I have been interested in the expansiveness of finite spaces. Subversion and signifying have both been necessary tools for creation, hopefully an absurd humor through imagery that paves the way for the freedom of confusion. I like puzzles, in their celebration of both confusion and order. This performance is a puzzle – finding my infinity by way of rigidity.