September 22 and 23, 7:30PM FlyGround: Plight Release and the Diasporic Body

Lela Aisha Jones | FlyGround will premiere Everyday Saturday and also feature Jesus & Egun, proclaimed by Eva Yaa Asantawaa as a choreographic world she would want to live in permanently. These works from Jones’ newest series, Plight Release and the Diasporic Body, bask in blackness as everyday, diasporic phenomena.
Jesus & Egun works from the premise and concept expressed by Dr. Nzinga Metzger that "Jesus is an overworked ancestor (egun),” and we must look to all our ancestors and practices on the continuum to move into states of restoration. I am specifically looking at 3 states of being that include the Mothers of the church, the transcendent human potential in the social dance form House, and matrons of Yoruba spiritual practice.

Everyday Saturday works to capture and imagine the gestural, common, and less visible locations of black/African diasporic movement—where it lives in the crevices. This work is nostalgic restoration that dreams the ritual of everyday, converging remembrances of home and coming of age in the 80s & 90s.


Philadelphia FringeArts Festival:
September 22 & 23, 2017
​7:30pm | TICKETS | *Cash only at the door* $20/ 70 minutes

Conwell Dance Theater
1801 North Broad Street, 5th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Phone:(215) 204-8301