The 2024 Culpeper Summer Performance Series finale will feature multidisciplinary artists’ collective TRIBE presenting works in progress from their performance art residency incubator Solace of RED. Led by award-winning movement artist, choreographer, creator, curator, and artistic director Shamel Pitts, Solace of RED intertwines different art languages to create one live performance experience.

Solace of RED is a project of cultivating space to create a platform for TRIBE artists’ singular works. This residency provides an opportunity for each artist to express their own voice while finding solace in sharing the weight of the creative practice alongside one another. TRIBE aims to extend this project to a multitude of artists working in various mediums and from a variety of locations. From these incubators, the work will re-birth itself throughout TRIBE’s lifetime as new artists cycle through the kaleidoscopic creative process led by Pitts to find solitude, creativity, and solidarity.

PROGRAM:

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Choreography by Tushrik Fredericks 

Performers Tushrik Fredericks, Minylan Echols, and Babou Sanneh 

SORE (excerpt) 

Concept Direction by Ashley Pierre-Louis   

Choreography by Ashley Pierre-Louis, in collaboration with Dominica Greene 

Sound Collage by Tushrik Fredericks 

Performers Dominica Greene and Ashley Pierre-Louis   

Post-Show Q&A with Shamel Pitts 

A reception will follow the performance. Presented in partnership with the RBF Culpeper Arts & Culture program.