Lamb

Cape is a muso-poetical play that follows five characters who live on an unnamed coastal landmass in the early 1500s. One day, a portal door materializes on the cape; the passageway allows one to instantly traverse thousands of miles of global distance. Braced against this new apprehension of the world, the characters—Lamb, the Lovers, the Cartographer, the Conductor, and the Voice—grapple with world-mapping, self-coordination, and relation in a suddenly global world.

Through sequences of live music performance, dance, poetry, and theatre, Lamb and Novak consider what kind of ontological reckonings indigenous lives on the cape undergo when their finistère (end of the earth) becomes a point of relay. Featuring an ensemble of Lamb (Dancer, Vocalist, Creator, Co-Writer, Composer, Choreogarpher), Dymon Samara (Dancer), Kyneijee Wubah (Dancer), AMANI (Keys, Vocalist), 13th Law (Guitar, Bass), and Jessica Howard (Vocalist), as well as Lara Lewison (Video & Projection Designer), My Melendez (Set Designer and Florist), ed-en (Costume Designer), Ava Elizabeth Novak (Co-Director, Co-Writer, Stage Manager, Lighting Designer) and artwork by Tyler Cala.

BIO

R&B/soul music, contemporary dance, and ecofuturism comprise Lamb's artistic vision: where the visceral meets the cerebral; where the natural enacts the synthetic. The musician, composer, choreographer, and director explores Blackness as the break that might rupture our attachments to Worlds, territories, and Man. Steeped in the aesthetic, conceptual, and political tradition of modern Black thinkers before them, Lamb's thesis is this: in a world wrought through violence, to salvage some beauty from it is to seek truth within it. Notable works/recognition: Tribeca Film Festival Selection (LaJuné McMillian) [composer], Times Square Arts: Midnight Moment (McMillian) [dancer], FADER: "10 songs you need in your life," HEAR US Tisch Creative Research Award, Vans Channel 66 live performance, MUSE Danspace Residency.