About the Show
Blur (West Coast Premiere), a solo performance by choreographer Leslie Cuyjet, experiments with visibility and invisibility, and the relationship between performer, audience, and object. Viewers are invited to navigate a choreographic and phonetic landscape through the lens of race and objectification. Written and performed by Cuyjet, Brandon Wolcott’s sound design manipulates text informed by personal history and experiences with dance, which so often casts her as a black dot on a white stage. A body suit composed of close-up images of Cuyjet’s own skin, designed by Miodrag Guberinic, helps Cuyjet ask if she can control her own erasure or disappearance and rewrite an existence she’s never experienced.
