Our dance film Eviction about our company's resilience during the pandemic will be premiered on January 21 as part of the Miami Beach Department of Cultural Affairs Culture Crawl program.

Dance portrayals will include homelessness and street dwelling by any means necessary. Marginalized LGBTQ injustice and the incredible creativity born out of their ouster from the general society and brutal discrimination in housing, employment, medical support, and many other social livings and thriving needs (that mirrors that the intersectionality of those relegated to the lower caste) we all desire to have as a human right.

The portrayals also include JOURNEY TO TEA, a dance of deep desire for human physical connection based on separation and exile from loved ones, brought to a nearly unbearable state due to Covid 19 social distancing protocols.

MIAMI DAVID, Florence, eat your heart out. This one is alive and moves, even if he/she, they are caught in the Lockdown or the Lock-Up. The pandemic closed costume shops, costumes set and prop shops, and comfortable indoor performance spaces with the magical effects of lights, sound, and fancy costumes; the normal theater production process is suspended. However, it also brought opportunities to innovate and embellish old themes. Thus, costume concepts include found objects on the beach. Props include imaginary friends for those lonely hours on the streets or alone for long hours, days, weeks, and months at home.

MY COCONUT LADIES, decked out in two penny pearls, Madras head wraps, and large eye bangers with Pend d'Orielles, along with glam pieces that bring the fantasy of highlife club nights to life for the discarded among us; that which lifts their spirits to high ecstasy and 'goddessness', if only for one gaudy night, bringing hope to live another day, and release, from the vexing and unrelenting grim undertow of the roughness, bestowed upon those who dare to live as Martha Graham said  “... the life of a realist", and in part, that driving force of life and the desire to "... become not one of five hundred, but one of five, one of four".

This event is free and open to the public.

SoundScape Park, 500 17th Street, Miami Beach, FL 33139

Photographer: Shameka Seabrook