adaku, part 2: she shivers with it

Legacy, ritual, and repair... The adaku trilogy is a powerful mythology about how one family in precolonial West Africa becomes entangled in the transatlantic slave trade. Set in a near-future United States, adaku, part 2: she shivers with it follows a young woman who receives sudden downloads of long-forgotten ancestral history.  What are the multitude of futures she can now imagine? Using text, sound, song, movement and spatial design, sweat variant’s adaku, part 2 transcends the conventional theater experience.

 

adaku, part 2: she shivers with it is commissioned by Aspen Art Museum, The Wexner Center for the Arts, and Yale Schwarzman Center as lead co-commissioners, and is co-commissioned by the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN).adaku, part 2: she shivers with it is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Walker Art Center, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, DiverseWorks, ASU Gammage, CAP UCLA and NPN. For more information www.npnweb.org. adaku, part 2: she shivers with it was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and The Mellon Foundation. adaku, part 2: she shivers with it is also supported by the Harkness Foundation for Dance.

Support for sweat variant is provided in part by the Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman, Foundation, and the Scherman Foundation.