With Marion

Created by Leslie Cuyjet - EMPAC 2025

Video Design, Matthew Deinhart - Sound Design, Johann Diedrick - Additional Sound Design, Max Ludlow -Lighting Design, Amanda K. Ringger

Production Description:

With Marion, an evening-length work from choreographer Leslie Cuyjet, creates a densely mediated performance environment mining family archives and memory, through the legacy of her great aunt, Marion Cuyjet, a pioneer of dance education for students of color in the 1950s. In this multimedia solo performance, Cuyjet builds video loops in real time combining archival footage with her own pre-recorded and live-captured video, and projects her creations onto a performance cube that acts as stage and projection screens. Questioning the proximity of objects and self, Cuyjet assembles a fragmented, unstable repository of the past in order to redirect a future out from under its thumb.

Photos taken by Michael Valiquette