A Silent Pause

Our Mission:To document, preserve, and interpret the history of free African American communities in Weeksville, Brooklyn and beyond, and to create and inspire innovative, contemporary uses of African American history through education, the arts, and civic engagement.

Weeksville Heritage Center

Inspired by Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf.

A Silent Pause is an immersive movement piece, a choreopoem that will take the audience on a journey through Nyesha’s mind. The piece is an open diary written in prose and poetry with themes of love, sex, identity, and the intricacies of human emotion. This production of A Silent Pause was a collaborative effort with movement choreography by Kendall Butler (she/her), music composition by Austin D’Adamo (he/him) and Fara Faidzan (she/they); bass played by Remenise Eugene (they/them), direction by Kendall Butler, Mar’Shon Dalton (he/him). Written and directed by Nyesha L. McCormick.Ensemble: Bethany Cox (she/her), Hernán Coronel (he/they), Nyx Joseph (he/they), Nyesha L. McCormick (they/she), Ta’Lor D’Yonna Mosley (they/them), and Ima Otto-During (she/her).Friday, June 23Doors at 6:30pm. Performance at 7pm.This event is free with RSVP.

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