Selcouth: Unfamiliar, rare, strange, yet marvelous - A Hampshire Dance Concert

The Hampshire Dance Program will present Selcouth: Unfamiliar, rare, strange, yet marvelous: a Hampshire Dance Concert, which opens on Thursday, April 3rd and runs through Friday April 4th. The concert will feature choreography by Div I and II choreographers: KC Johnson Erikson, Fae Galatis, Diana Yaseen, Johnny Clark, Jacqueline-Delphine Laffitte, Sarah Morquecho, Anais Dallet. Their works engage a range of aesthetics, dance traditions, and subjects of inquiry, and the choreographers have engaged in extensive supported & independent processes in connection with a cohort of makers.

Diana Yaseen’s Mourning/ Morning Revival // Mou/rning Revival, is a dance dedicated to her homeland of Palestine. Johnny Clark’s Buried Alive is an extension of a work he created last year about revenge, Black art, truth, and rebirth. Jacqueline-Delphine Laffitte will show Fags For Hecate— a work that seeks to challenge the audiences perception of art for performance and mental illness under current social conditions. Anais Dallet will share an emergent work that researches “little physical habits” and interacts with the audience.

Fae Galatis will show Mr. Lily Smith in a Tragicomical Tale of Transvestitude, a transgender ode to 1950s burlesque. Fae says this dance is “recommended viewing if you like hot people.” Sarah Morquecho will share an ode to pop icons, bringing out the bass in order to ask the audience “What is love?” KC Johnson Erikson will show THE DOOMSDAY MIXTAPE, described as an “An emotional Love letter to myself” that explores Black time, Afrofuturism, and memory. 

Selcouth: Unfamiliar, rare, strange, yet marvelous: a Hampshire Dance Concert will take place Thursday April 3rd—Friday April 4th. Doors open at 7:00 PM, concert begins at 7:30 PM. Tickets can be reserved with a suggested donation of $5-$15. Free tickets are available. Reserve tickets at https://hampdance.ludus.com/