Becoming David
Who is David Roussève? Is he a 64-year-old African American dance/theater artist taking to the stage in a solo outing for the first time in 20 years? Check!
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“Let us remember, we’re fighting two viruses,” the choreographer Kyle Abraham writes on the A.I.M (Abraham in Motion) website. In what is a perfect response to both, the Joyce Theater is streaming a performance of his piece “Meditation: A Silent Prayer” online through August 24th. Though this work premiered in 2018, it seems tailor-made for the Black Lives Matter reckoning of today. Of course, the racism and bloodshed “Meditation” addresses have been around for centuries, but the piece is frighteningly apropos to the current pressure cooker moment. Running just ten minutes, “Meditation” is an ideal length for our digitally-dependent quarantine. And though it predated the murder by two years, it seems eerily right that it runs just a hair longer than George Floyd’s fatal police encounter—it feels like a meditation and silent prayer to honor his memory too.
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Jae Neal in “Meditation: A Silent Prayer” by A.I.M. Photograph by Steven Schreiber
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Who is David Roussève? Is he a 64-year-old African American dance/theater artist taking to the stage in a solo outing for the first time in 20 years? Check!
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