First Dark Drama

A project of D UNDERBELLY

Experimental DJ/Composer Daniel Givens and Interdisciplinary artist Baraka de Soleil, inspired by Givens’ latest album, Dayclear/First Dark, collaborate to create First Dark Drama: a multisensory work that journeys deep into the subconscious of urban dwelling & personal memory; enmeshing Afro-post mod movement with stark visuals & dissonant compositions.

Through intimate and exposed episodic pathways, First Dark Drama’s world orbits around the ever-fluid relationship between sensory recall, time and history. It is a cosmic space embodied in refractions of memories, distilled from the legacies of race & culture; a prism into how Black gay men continue to love & survive in the midst of loss & longing.

Originally conceived by Daniel Givens

Sound Composition, Text & Media: Daniel Givens

Movement, Direction, Conceptualization & additional text: Baraka de
Soleil

Performed by: Sunder Ashni, Christal N. Brown, Baraka de Soleil, Lela
Jones, Roger Hall, Mutale Kanyatta, Daniel Givens, Reza Salazar,
Francine Sheffield.

Produced in association with the Ontological-Hysteric Inucbator