Kolot/Voices: HaMapah/The Map Dance on – Film with DNAWORKS

_HaMapah/The Map Dance on-Film_ (30 min.) chronicles dancer and choreographer
Adam W. McKinney’s return to his ancestral homelands—Benin, Poland, Montana,
Arkansas, Missouri, and Wisconsin—to trace the intersections of his African
American, Native American, and Jewish heritages. Directed by Daniel Banks and
filmed by documentary filmmaker Laura Bustillos Jáquez, the work was created
over a four-year period as a way to investigate the possibility of healing
transgenerational traumas. _HaMapah/The Map Dance-on-Film_ explores issues
of identity, heritage, and ancestry and offers a complex and powerful story
about humanity and mixed-heritage identity.
**Storycircles**
All our events include a community storycircle, organically flowing out of the
creative offering. We turn down the lights on the stage and up on the audience
and, instead of facilitating questions about the film, we ask participants to
relate stories of how their personal narratives intersect with the material of
the piece. We first invite sharing among audience members in pairs, then to
the room as a whole. The goal of the storycircles is to balance artist and
audience voices and create a space for community members to learn more about
one another—to breathe and listen together.

Current research shows that audiences’ heartbeats synchronize while
simultaneously watching a performance. The artistic offering, therefore, is a
catalyst for greater community sharing, inter-/intra-group understanding, and
healing. This work has been consistently successful, generating partnerships
among audience members as well as inspiring individuals to begin their own
research and projects around identity and heritage. The storycircle often
lasts longer than the performance or film.

Kolot/Voices is supported by a JCF Nova Grant

View event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/3739

Click here to join the livestream. https://www.segalcentre.org/en/shows/2022-2023/kolotvoices-hamapah