Claudia Rankine and Will Rawls: What Remains
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Claudia Rankine and Will Rawls: What Remains

Claudia Rankine and Will Rawls: What Remains. Photo: Julieta Cervantes, courtesy Live Arts Bard

“While ‘surveillance’ might conjure images of security cameras, cellphones, and other machines, What Remains considers less concrete, more culturally ingrained kinds of surveillance that shape and have shaped the black American experience.” —New York Times

What Remains unites the minds of genre-busting and Bessie Award–winning choreographer Will Rawls, poet and MacArthur Fellow Claudia Rankine, and filmmaker John Lucas. In a space representing the entombed imagination, the artists present resonant movement and language inspired by Rankine’s texts on racial violence—Citizen and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (Graywolf Press)—in response to black citizens’ visibility and disappearances. Featuring performers Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Leslie Cuyjet, Jessica Pretty, and Tara Aisha Willis.

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FUNDING

  • What Remains was commissioned, developed, and premiered by Live Arts Bard, the commissioning and residency program of the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. What Remains was developed with additional commissioning support from the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) Crossing the Line Festival, the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, and Yale Repertory Theater.