Adaku, Part 2 - Sweat Variant takes place on Sat, Jan 23, 2027 at 7:00 PM (MST) at ASU Gammage in Scottsdale, AZ. Prices are shown on the Ticketmaster listing.
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Sweat Variant is the dance theater group of award-winning artists Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, is described by Dance Magazine as ?elastic and electric, luxuriantly rippling, poetically arranged with moments of perfect stillness that arrive amid splashes of expression.? The adaku trilogy is a speculative mythology about how one family in precolonial West Africa becomes entangled in the transatlantic slave trade.
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In part two of this mythology, we investigate the embodied impact of this violent rupture, while also considering the devastating consequences of the theft of artifacts designed to protect ancestral bonds. Part two sets us in the U.S. in the near future, where this history has been forgotten and where we excavate the consequences of erasure when events lead to sudden remembering. What is unleashed in the imagination of a young woman who?s been led to believe she has no history worth remembering? What are the multitude of futures she can now imagine? Using text, sound, son
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- When
- Sat, Jan 23, 2027 · 7:00 PM (MST)
- Where
- ASU Gammage
- Address
- 1200 South Forest Ave
- Price
- See listing
- Genre
- Arts & Theatre/Performance Art/Performance Art
Questions
- When is Adaku, Part 2 - Sweat Variant?
- Sat, Jan 23, 2027 at 7:00 PM MST.
- How much are tickets for Adaku, Part 2 - Sweat Variant?
- Prices are not published in the listing data; they are shown on Ticketmaster.
- Where is Adaku, Part 2 - Sweat Variant?
- ASU Gammage, 1200 South Forest Ave, Scottsdale, AZ.
- Where can I buy tickets for Adaku, Part 2 - Sweat Variant?
- Tickets are sold on Ticketmaster. This page links straight to that listing; no tickets are sold here.