shelter in place

2021

Concept, Choreography, and Dance Performance: Adam W. McKinney

Dramaturgy/Direction: Daniel Banks

Tintype photography: Will Wilson

Dance Film Artist: Roma Flowers

Music: Najeeb Sabour

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Bridge Projects (Los Angeles), Project Row Houses (Houston), and Tarrant County College Trinity River Campus (Fort Worth)

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Shelter in Place is an immersive environment created by Adam W. McKinney with dramaturgy and direction by Daniel Banks that deconstructs elements of the holiday of Sukkot to reflect on the anti-Black racial violence, historical trauma, and the possibilities of liberation through art and ritual. The work began with McKinney's learning of the 1921 lynching of Mr. Fred Rouse, whose murder at the hands of a white mob in Fort Worth has largely been forgotten. With few historical archives to draw upon, the artist collaborated with Diné photographer Will Wilson to stage tintypes wherein McKinney dresses as Mr. Rouse in traumatic sites associated with the lynching.

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For more information, visit: https://www.dnaworks.org/shelter-in-place