A Message From Mx. Black Copper
“A Message from Mx. Black Copper” is the initiating performance project of my Afro-futuristic world-building project, SATURN. Set in a not-too-distant future on an alternate timeline, the global oppression abolition project SATURN is near its completion and the promise of a utopia nears.
Though the Global Abolitionists for Human Design facilitate the dream for utopia embedded in the SATURN project, the governing body suppressed any mention of the Underground and their human trafficking economy to keep people believing that they are making progress towards utopia.
After experiencing years of traumatic abuse and oppression in the Underground and out of GAHD’s near omnipresent-eye, Mx. Black Copper attempted to end their life. While in limbo, they heard the call of their Black queer ancestors, headed their wisdom, and chose to live again. In their new resurrected life, Mx. Black Copper becomes a phoenix determined to liberate the Underground to actualize the true intentions of SATURN.
S A T U R N
A worldbuilding project cultivating radical imaginings for the future through a series of dance performances, films, and community engagement events such as dance classes and virtual experiences.
Learn more about the inspirations informing this world-building project, the projects under cultivation, and how you can engage with the journey to S A T U R N!
Chiron in Leo
This is the tale of Chiron, a dancer whose bout with depression and anxiety summons them back to their childhood wounds to remember a lesson about survival. Chiron in Leo’s tale is inspired by the Greek myth and astrological significations of Chiron, the wounded healer.
The Space Between Words
In this performance, two friends talk about their mental health as they dance and explore contact improvisation. While the conversations speak to depression, anxiety, and dismantling patriarchy, it is the movement of two Black men that speaks loudest.
Holding Onto Innocence
My 5-year old nephew asked me, “why are the police killing little Black kids?” and, for the first time, I was faced with explaining the truth of the world while attempting to preserve his innocence.
Holding Onto Innocence is the result of contending with what we do to maintain our “innocence”.