6:30pm Doors + Free Food | 7:30pm Free Art
From the Metropolis of Hallucinatory Desire
by Fana Fraser
curated by Malcolmx Betts & Arien Wilkerson
'From the Metropolis of Hallucinatory Desire' is a new production directed by Fana Fraser. Charged inside queer sensibilities, this performance is a dream sequence of collective action, sound and dance experiments that question when and at what point does fiction become fact? The work engages teachings on pleasure and power from Goddess Rati, electronic sound and contemporary Trinidadian scriptwriting to thread plays of survival inside the realm of the dense, visceral erotic.
Directed by Fana Fraser and performed with Soleil Collyear, Micah Lat, Kimiko Tanabe and Joyce Edwards
Fana Fraser is a director, producer and artist whose work moves across dance, performance, film and experimental theater. Rooted in Caribbean Futurist sensibilities, Fana's performances have been presented at several venues including: Brooklyn Museum, New York Botanical Garden, BAAD!, Abrons Arts Center, 99 Canal, Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco and Trinidad Theater Workshop. She has held artist residencies at The Watermill Center, BAM Fisher Studio, Movement Research, and other spaces. Most recently, Fana taught on faculty at Harvard TDM and they have been a guest artist in BFA and MFA programs at University of the Arts, NYU Tisch and Sarah Lawrence College. She worked as Rehearsal Director for Ailey II from 2016-20. Fana was shortlisted for the 2020 BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Caribbean-American Writer’s Prize, and in 2023 was commissioned to create short film, 'nesting' by TBA21-Academy. fanafraser.com
Mackenzie-Soleil Collyear is a site-specific, improvisational artist interested in work researching duration, aural kinesthetic, and materiality within natural elements. Soleil is a deconstructor of the hyper-normative nature of the categorization; we place and are placed into categories as humans.
Micah Lat (it/they/he) is a black & queer transdisciplinary performance artist. It has a BFA in Dance from University of the Arts, is a current artist-in-residence at Mascher Space, and company member of Very Good Dance Theater. Lat’s work is deeply invested in curiosity and rigorous playfulness as avenues to whimsical, seductive, and poetic art making methods.
Kimiko Tanabe (she/her) is a fourth generation Japanese American dance artist based in Brooklyn. Her work wanders into afterlives and imagined futures.
Joyce Edwards (she/they) b. 1997, is still becoming. Their results are strengthened by the support of their ancestor kin.
This performance is part of Black Aesthetics, an experimental performance series curated by Malcolmx Betts & Arien Wilkerson at Judson Church.