Komansé Dance Theater
Premiere of Skid January 25th - 26th, 2019
THE FERST CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Raianna Brown founded Komansé Dance Theater in 2018. Komansé Dance Theater's mission is to use art to challenge, create, and cultivate. The company utilizes the medium of Black cultural expression to unpack current issues surrounding social activism. Artistic Director, Raianna Brown, seeks to crete work that speaks to people's experiences and the universal human connection. Komansé Dance Theater is uncompromising storytelling for the culture.
Below is the link to both PERMANENT: EW, SN & PERMANENT: A Couple in Prospect Park (being together)
https://www.permanentproject.org/projects
PERMANENT’s debut project references Radcliffe Bailey’s “EW, SN” 2011 from the permanent collection of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art.
“PERMANENT: EW, SN” employs original choreography and music inspired by Bailey’s themes of migration and mobility, as well as the passage of time. The unique collaboration between The African Diaspora Art Museum (ADAMA) and Komansé Dance Theater was performed and filmed at the High Museum of Art in Spring of 2021. The project features an original music composition by Atlanta’s Orchestra Noir.
“PERMANENT: A Couple in Prospect Park (being together), serves as the second installment of “PERMANENT: EW, SN”, references Dawoud Bey's "A Couple in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY" (1990), from the permanent collection of Atlanta's High Museum of Art.
“PERMANENT: A Couple in Prospect Park (being together)” references Dawoud Bey’s stunning image of a young couple in love in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park from 1990. Through original choreography and music inspired by themes of love and togetherness, we attempt to capture the essence of this primary emotion as well as Bey’s generative creative process. The unique collaboration between The African Diaspora Art Museum (ADAMA) and Komansé Dance Theater was performed at Fort McPherson as part of Elevate Atlanta and filmed at the High Museum of Art between October and November 2021. The project features an original music composition by Okorie Johnson and AshaTune.
(Parental Advisory is suggested, this production contains mature racial subject matter.)