Shamel Pitts TRIBE: Touch of RED
2024 MacArthur Fellow and 2024 Doris Duke Artist Award winner Shamel Pitts performs in Touch of RED, a multidisciplinary duet inspired by the rapid-fire footwork of boxing, the African American jazz dance style Lindy-Hop, Gaga movement language, and nightlife culture. Set in a stylized “boxing” ring designed by the MacArthur Fellow Mimi Lien, with the audience seated onstage surrounding it, this powerful dance duet examines the way Black men are perceived and perceive themselves in contemporary society, and how masculinity and vulnerability can be reconsidered and reconciled in a non-combative, compassionate, and healing way.
Thursday, March 6 at 8:00pm
Friday, March 7 at 8:00pm
Saturday, March 8 at 8:00pm
On-stage seating only at the Carlson Family Stage.
Co-presented by Northrop and the Walker Art Center.