EXPECTATION OF VIOLENCE/RITES DUE SPRING: B-BAM!
An interdisciplinary theatre collaboration built through a framework of community engagement from artists Cat Mahari and Hermon Mehari. ...B-BAM! is composed of localized stories and questions about America and blackness. With street dance, music, and visual imagery, it engages the iconography and realities of Blackness in Kansas City.
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This collaboration is an investigation and construction of freedom, creativity, intimacy, and individual specificity—between neighbors, cousins, and strangers. Kansas City artifacts of Black bodies address changing tactics of injust placement
of Violence as synonym for
Black in America.
Situated community engagement by breaking the rules and roles of "diversity training and inclusion seminars". Kansas City Jazz riffs fuel improvisation and confrontation of the histories and current geography of Anti-Blackness.