LandHome March 30, 2012

Fri-Sat, March 30-31, 8pm both days

Along with collaborators, Artistic Director Sheena Johnson will offer a live evening-length performance experience that will expand and embrace those moments that bring us closer to finding a place to land. LandHome uses a collage of imagery...broken weathered bodies, tree-scapes, gospel songs, rocks from a riverbank... It is a personal and collective rendering of how we create home in places we happen to land.

The evening will include several new works. "The Yellow House Project" is a performative remembrance of our inherited black queer legacies. It is a multi-disciplinary performance installation in honor of our black LGBTQI ancestors, including Ms. Johnson's Great Uncle Billy Brown, murdered in 1982 because of how he dressed. Another highlight will be the premiere of the second installment of the "Freedom Study Series", a collaboration between SJRH and the multi-talented Chris Evans (cellist/video artist/dancer) that looks at the question, "When have you felt most free?" LandHome will conclude with an ensemble work of the similar name, "Land/Home," that excavates the question "What does it mean to create home as people displaced from our homelands?"

In discussing LandHome Ms. Johnson shared, "I am passionate about creating choreographies that speak to the resiliency of the human spirit. LandHome celebrates our ability as human begins to shape safe, whole and healing homelands for ourselves wherever life takes us." Other collaborating artists include Bay Area talents Ernest Jolly (visual artist) and Atasiea/Kenneth Ferguson, Byb Chanel Biben, Mary Ann Brooks, Jochelle Elise Perena and Jasmine Vassar.

Official Website: http://www.sheenajohnsonrebelhome.blogspot.com