Nia & Ness Presents: One Night
A Split bill with Nia & Ness and Suku Dance Lab

One Night will be at FiveMyles on Saturday, November 10th! Doors open at 7pm and the show starts promptly at 7:30pm.

One Night will consist of two works; ANIMA by Suku Dance Lab and home. by Nia & Ness 

The night will start of with Suku’s ANIMA. ANIMA is an immersive solo performance that challenges the idea of femininity according to our dominant patriarchal culture. Movements and imageries are drawn from performer’s personal journey and her own subconscious childhood memories, which are then combined with historical research of the women’s role within patriarchal society. Through live performance, original sound scores and prop designs, ANIMA tells the story of a woman who shatters molds and barriers set by society, leaving her with an authentic and unmanufactured version of herself. Learn more about Suku below!

After a short intermission, Nia & Ness will perform an excerpt of their new evening length work: home. With our new piece, home., we are going deeper into the specific positioning of our black, female, women-loving bodies in our current time and space, as well as the way we handle the ancestral and cultural histories flowing through our bodies every second. We are uncovering these histories to better understand the context of our living and the ramifications they have on our relationship. Further, we are digging deeper into our individual stories, moving beyond a focus on the historical contexts of our bodies in shaping how we relate to each other, and delving more deeply into how the personal histories within our bodies shape who we are individually. We are going further into these personal histories to understand the complexities that include race, skin color, gender presentation, sexual orientation, and look closer at economic status, mental health, education, family dynamics, ability, and privilege. home. will fully premiere at Outsider Fest in Austin, Texas, February 2019! Learn more about Nia & Ness below!

Follow the performance, there will be an artist talk with Nia & Ness and Suku Dance Lab about their work, their process and more!

TICKETS:
Tickets are donation based so you can pay what you can/wish! The donations raised will spilt between the artists to further their artistic endeavors. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds!

Can’t wait to see you there!

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Suku Dance Lab is a New York based dance-theater company founded by Talia Moreta and Belinda Adam. Our works have been presented with 100 Bogart, The Creator’s Collective’s event at Pop up Performance, Dixon Place, WMAAC Moving Beauty Series, Pushing Progress Showcase Series, and with WAXworks. Suku Dance Lab aims to create accessible and relatable performances rooted in dance and theater. Holding collaboration at the center of our process, Suku Dance Lab calls upon various dance lineages, elements of voice, and live music to establish a dynamic and nuanced lens through which to examine community - how human experiences can be deeply unique and simultaneously universal.

Nia & Ness are a black, lesbian, dancer-poet performance art duo based in Brooklyn, NY. The duo met and became a couple in 2013, and founded their company in 2016. They have performed at multiple venues nationwide, sharing their work that aims at a deeper understanding of their co-reality through intense investigation of their individual identities. They have been keynote speakers at Brown University, and performed their work at schools such as the University of California Riverside, NYU, Sarah Lawrence College, Temple University, Bard College, Harvard College and more. The duo has been highlighted in local newspapers; worked with the Sadie Nash Leadership Project Summer Institute; and been featured in a 2017 BRIC TV segment, a documentary for The Advocate, and on Radio Free Brooklyn. They've also performed at Brooklyn Pride 2017 and Harlem Pride 2018; were recipients of the BAX Summer 2017 Space Grant; inaugural recipients of the Virginia Giordano Memorial Fund and were the winners of the 2017 National Women's Music Festival Emerging Artist Contest. Currently, Nia & Ness are on tour! To follow them on their journey, check them out on social media @niaandness.