SUMMON By Shamar Watt
World Premiere Performance!
Dates & Showtimes:
- Saturday, September 23 at 08:00 PM
- Sunday, September 24 at 03:00 PM
Venue
Sandrell Rivers Theater
Jamaican-American performance artist Shamar Watt incorporates experimental cinema alongside live performance to investigate the spirit of resistance embodied by the Maroon people of Jamaica. He draws inspiration from his own Maroon heritage—descendants of escaped enslaved Africans who rebelled against British colonialists. Summon seeks to give form to this spirited lineage through the screening of a new cinematic work led by Jamaican based filmmaker Nile Saulter and a live performance featuring multiple dancers and percussionist Austin Williamson.
Watt reimagines his Maroon roots as a cosmic garden, intertwining cosmic phenomena like black holes with the perception of the black body and spirit. This epic experience incorporates music, film and dance in one extraordinary performance blending maroon, krump, and rave aesthetics with scientific theories around behaviors of the invisible matter/energy that governs life.
Shamar Watt
Shamar Watt is an experimental multidisciplinary independent artist born in Jamaica, raised in Miami, and based in Miami and New York City. A Bessie Award Winner for Outstanding Performance, Watt’s creative spirit has taken him around the world in collaborations with artists like Nora Chipaumire and Matthew Barney. He was nominated as one of the top 25 performers/choreographers to watch for 2019 Dance Magazine. Shamar is a proud alumni of MDC and FSU and is beginning his post-graduate studies at NYU. Watt is driven by the politics of black frequencies as they shift/manipulate space and can enable the body to respond in radical ways towards illumination.
