SINCLAIR EMOGHENE: Facets of Esoterics
Aug. 18–Sept. 3
VCUarts The Anderson
907 1/2 W. Franklin St., Richmond, VA 23284

** THE RESERVATION FORM IS NOW CLOSED!! **
Thanks for your interest. All performance reservations have been claimed.

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PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Tuesdays 4:00–4:45 (Aug. 18, Aug. 25, Sept. 1)
Wednesdays 6:00–6:45 (Aug. 19, Aug. 26, Sept. 2)
Thursdays 4:00–4:45 (Aug. 20, Aug. 27, Sept. 3)

RESERVE YOUR SPOT (PLEASE READ!)
Attendance is limited to 5 guests per performance. Each performance is 45 minutes long and takes place in three different rooms within the Anderson on the first, second, and third floors. Please note that the Anderson does not have an elevator. Live stream performances will take place on Aug. 26 & Sept. 2* (the Sept. 2 live stream has been rescheduled in favor of a recorded version to air at 7pm on Sept. 16. For more info, visit https://arts.vcu.edu/community/the-anderson).

Please arrive a few minutes before the performance is scheduled to begin. Reservations must be secured no later than one hour prior to the performance start time.

If you need to cancel your reservation or have any questions or concerns, email Monica Kinsey kinseym@vcu.edu. Performance dates will be removed from the form below as attendance capacity is filled for each date.


ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
The Anderson, in collaboration with VCUarts Department of Dance + Choreography, is pleased to present Facets of Esoterics, an installation and series of performances by Sinclair Emoghene, Assistant Professor of Dance + Choreography. The performance cast includes Shanna Lims, Alfumega Enock, and VCUarts Dance Majors Jenna Beardsley, Jelani Taylor, and Sydney Wiggins.

Each 45-minute performance includes three parts, taking place in three different rooms that serve as framing devices for the dance and its concepts. The dance, which considers social locations and the impacts of the privileged in relationship to the marginalized, is derived from Nigerian social, ritual, and occupational dances.

Sinclair Emoghene seeks to trace and reclaim the values of his traditional dance history which is embedded in his practice as an African dancer within the framework of the US educational system. In Facets of Esoterics, he uses object-metaphors and site-installation in telling what “privilege” looks like to a marginalized group through dance abstraction. The objects or props within this work are directly uprooted from Nigerian cultural dances where they might have different symbolic meanings. For example, the Yoruba Ondo Omi Obitun dance of fertility uses china plates (porcelain) in the climax of the dance performance, but Sinclair has converted the plates into an object-metaphor of abstraction to speak directly to the notion of white fragility.