Embarqued: Stories of Soil by Company SBB // Stefanie Batten Bland is a dance-theatre work that interrogates our relationships with memorialization, self, and country. Inspired by the discovery of the African American Heritage trail on Martha's Vineyard—a living, evolving memorial site for heroic stories of loss and resilience—this lushly envisioned work uses textile imagery to connect people and places across time, revealing post-colonial ghosts and mythologies which still hold sway today.
This presentation of Embarqued: Stories of Soil was made possible in part by generous support from the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.
