origins - the skin between us-
Supported by the Performing Arts Fund with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR.
Choreographer: Selina Shida Hack
Dancers: Gio Cruz, Nana, Yurika S. Yamamoto
Music: The Nearness of You - Bill Charlap, Waves - Kanye West, Spiegel im Spiegel - Arvo Pärt, *Vocal Sound Recordings by Artik
Poems: Biracial - Veronica Clay, Pieces of the Earth - Chardonay Taylor Lemon-Jones
Photos: Pablo Hassmann
To the mixed-race people who have been searching for a place to belong.
The term ‘mixed race’ is problematic, because race is a social construct, and to use the term ‘mixed race’ implies that race is based on biological attributes. Growing up in a mixed-race family sometimes felt like occupying the space in between. Not always knowing which way to turn, and which parent to listen to. Often trying to navigate who we were and who we wanted to be. It's complex. No one's life episodes are identical. There is no singular, 'mixed-race experience', but I’ve learned through this research that - as with any community of people and there are distinct commonalities and threads that link us.
