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Akoiya Harris

Across the world, people are constantly affected by those in power trying to shape the way we interact with land. This reshaping can be for profit, a scapegoat to maintain power, or for exploitation of resources. It looks like rerouting, damming, and dumping into rivers. It looks like redlining and gentrification. Some of us feel the effects deeply and some of us ignore it. Regardless, we are all changed. This piece is a meditation on the connections between Black experiences in Seattle and the ways the Duwamish River has been changed by outside forces. Both have been rerouted and depleted yet are still around. Ours is a story of resilience. Redlining, gentrification, and the exploitation of the river creates a ripple effect on the culture of the city. This piece will dive into survival, not just the how but the why. How does the need to survive imprint itself onto the body? How does the success of survival take a toll on the spirit? There is cultural memory attached to the river and the Central District that is at risk of erasure. What outlets do we have for that memory to be archived? This piece will reveal some of those outlets through movement, poetry, and visual aids.

Vlada Kremenović

Baby planula. Budding polyps. Emergent ephyrae. Voracious, sexually mature medusae.

Medusa is a multidisciplinary dance performance that dives into the life cycle of jellyfish featuring all trans performers. Submerged in an immersive seascape of projection and original sound by Fox Whitney, six trans performers move through a coming-of-age story of growing up, sex, survival, and global migration. Performed by Vlada Kremenović, Will Courtney, Lío Sainz-Jones, and Tayler Tucker.