Walk The (pink) Elephant memorializes multiple generations of (often queer) culture workers of color decimated by HIV/AIDS. WT(p)E is an evening-length exploration of absence and a ritual of reckoning, regeneration, defiance, and celebration in the face of cataclysmic loss.
Through a process of simultaneous research and generation, WT(p)E will seek to evoke and commune with the more hidden, intimate legacies of some of the many BIPOC, queer artists who succumbed to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, as well as the lives of those who continue to carry that loss in ways both subtle and profound.
Dance/performance artist yaTande Whitney V. Hunter and theatre/movement artist Jude Sandy have named their creative entity Denizen Arts, which represents their creative partnership and projects. Walk The (pink) Elephant is a multidisciplinary collaborative performance project informed by cultural and art-making practices of African diaspora, queer and other global identities.
Denizen Arts will collect testimony of survival from members of our communities who have cared for others with HIV/AIDS or who live HIV+ lives. These stories will be source material for a work of multi-disciplinary story-telling, using movement and physical metaphor, rhythm, sound, voice, text and ritual to consider this heritage and our place in the world anew.
Tickets: $12.50-$25.00 + fee
The Performance Garage
1515 Brandywine St.
Philadelphia, PA
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