Shamel Pitts | TRIBE: Touch of RED
2020 Guggenheim Fellow, performance artist, choreographer, dancer, and spoken word artist Shamel Pitts brings to the stage Touch of RED, a new evening-length performance work that consists of a duet for two men inside of a contemporary ring.
Mar. 3 & 4
$38
"Pitts and Fredericks bring their radical vulnerability to the audience" — Fjord Review
2020 Guggenheim Fellow, performance artist, choreographer, dancer, and spoken word artist Shamel Pitts brings to the stage Touch of RED, a new evening-length performance work that consists of a duet for two men inside of a contemporary ring.
The work investigates how Black men can allow themselves to soften, even under extreme pressure and heat. The confined space references a futuristic and voyeuristic gladiator entertainment site in which a heat path between the two performers builds, not out of aggression or combat, but within an enhanced electrifying effeminacy that heals.
Touch of RED is the newest work in Pitts’ “RED Series,” which explores the colorfulness within Blackness. As artistic director & founder of TRIBE, the Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary arts collective, Pitts is dedicated to creating a body of work that supports, shelters, and cultivates an Afro-futuristic performance art landscape in which the multitude of Black diversity and capacity is realized, allowed, nurtured, and shared within our complex humanity.
Funds provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Endowment Fund.
