Choreography
The Pew
Christopher-Rasheem McMillan
Summer 2023
Abstract
“The Pew” both use ritual, resistance, and desire as catalysts for locating the catharsis of grief between, in, and through the body. The Pew, religious in nature, stages the black body as a site for resistance, regeneration, and reconstruction by mobilising the intertextual residue left behind by/in Talley Beatty's “The Mourners Bench” (1947). By investigating his own spiritual background and that of other black queer people, Mcmillan created an autobiographical performance inspired by the embodiment of spiritual release that one can find in black religiosity and the evangelical church. The work envokes both presence and absence through the use of spirit in the bodily archive.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Pew
- Creators
- Christopher-Rasheem McMillan - University of Iowa, Dance
- Resource Type
- Choreography
- Publisher
- Christopher-Rasheem McMillan
- Language
- English
- Date published season
- Summer 2023
- Date published
- 07/14/2023
- Duration
- 11:15 minutes
- Academic Unit
- Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies; Dance
- Record Identifier
- 9984454250002771
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