Circo Zero to Present World Premiere of BLANK MAP

5 artists meet in the woods. Joking, clowning, experimenting with music and dance. Getting familiar. Getting naked. Telling stories. Asking what is possible. Featuring an all Black cast, BLANK MAP is a dance-with-live-music-and-art performance experiment inspired by anti-assimilationist tendencies in African diasporic culture (punk, futurism, improvisation) in an expansive space where both individual and shared narratives emerge. BLANK MAP is a gift of visibility, inspiration, and healing, constructing new languages and images of Black potential, power, and love.

BLANK MAP is a site-specific collective of artist-performer-musicians Adee Roberson, Brontez Purnell, keyon gaskin, Tasha Ceyan, and Wizard Apprentice, along with Stephanie Anne Johnson (lighting), Sampada Aranke (dramaturg), and Keith Hennessy (instigator/producer).

Circo Zero produces award winning solo performances and choreographies by Keith Hennessy. It is a queer led, dance/performance organization that is increasingly engaged in the decolonizing practices and social justice movements responding to anti-Black racism, the prison industrial complex, economic injustice and the war on terror. The Blank Map temporary collective of artists, all of whom identify as Black and queer, are deeply involved in African American and POC queer grassroots artist, activist, and music communities.

DATES: June 3-5; June 10-12, 8pm

WHERE: Dance Mission Theater

3316 24th St., San Francisco

TICKETS: For more information and tickets ($15-25) the public can visit circozero.org

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