Zane Booker reminisces on past experiences in Booker’s specific dance timeline as Oluwadamilare Ayorinde explores his relationship to sensation and individuality in creative expression through movement. They work through issues of tokenization in modern dance companies and practices in relation to black bodies in white spaces.

“And that’s what I think I got from sitting in the doorway. I learned how to perform and interpret movement before I understood technique.”

Zane Booker

“She’s [Saidiya Hartman, author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments] questioning the way like black women are recorded, remembered, the reasons why and the retelling of their stories. Like there has to be a bit of a creative edge because you just can’t trust the sources.”

“This is it. I forget that dance has the power to be a shameless vehicle of expression. Your body can just express as it is with everything it is. I forget that it has this power. I remembered and I was like, ‘I never want to forget again’ that I can access this thing that’s beyond me, above me that I get to interact with.”

Oluwadamilare Ayorinde