VCUarts Departments of Dance + Choreography and Kinetic Imaging are pleased to present “johnbrown,” a performance created by multidisciplinary artist Dean Moss – director of New York interdisciplinary company, Gametophyte Inc.
Performances are March 25 + 26, 2022 at 7:30 pm at the Grace Street Theater.
Tickets are FREE and can be reserved here.
Masks are strongly encouraged.
Masks are strongly encouraged.
Steeped in a childhood of grassroots organizing and pitched campaigns, multidisciplinary artist Dean Moss draws from an intimate and varied history with activism to re-create his acclaimed 2012 work johnbrown on the students of VCU—a dark, wry meditation on the legacy of the white 19th-century abolitionist, as well as the racial, gender, and generational processes at play in the inquiry. The result of several years of research, johnbrown layers live choreography and video performances with original recordings by composer and VCU Kinetic Imaging Chair, Stephen Vitiello
Lead image by Ryutaro Mishima