HAINT BLU
We are Sankofic.
Not holding onto the past: going back and restoring.
Thinking Past Tomorrow.
Haint Blu is an ensemble dance-theater work steeped in memory and magic. Known as the color that Southern families paint their front porches to ward off bad spirits, Haint Blu uses performance as a source of healing, taking us from movement into stillness and rest. An embodied look into familial and ancestral lines, the work reflects on what has been lost across generations and what can be restored. In Haint Blu, spirits share their legacies and leave the thick residue of their knowing behind.
Conceived, directed, and choreographed by
Chanon Judson & Mame Diarra Speis.
July 28 & August 4, 2024
Haint Blu: Episodic Chapters
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
New York, NY
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"I'm still piecing myself together from (Haint Blu). There's so much intensity, creativity, and Blackness. Black womanness as fugitivity, liminal, sensual, entropic, life-affirming… So many nuanced ways to think about this rigorous terrain.
It's archival liberation."
— Soraya, Audience Member
Unearthing history requires risk. Claiming history requires risk. Making history requires risk.
Urban Bush Women THIS IS RISK
Photo Credits: Header — Adam Kissick/APAP; Body — Woosler Delisfort for Live Arts Miami, Jonathan D. Secor