Untitled Evidence 

(February 2016)

Untitled Evidence is an audience engaged requiem/ dance/testimony that speaks on the death of Sandra Bland. On July 10, 2015 Sandra Bland was pulled over by Texas state trooper Brian Encinia in Prairie View, Texas for a failure to signal and found dead 3 days later in a Waller County jail cell from a supposed suicide. This piece is a ritual to remember the legacy of violence and disregard of black women that has it’s roots in slavery while promising to disrupt the normality of this social reality.

Choreography: amara tabor-smith

Performers: amara tabor-smith, Keisha Turner

Music: Prisoners at Louisiana State Prison, Sonny Sharrock

Text: amara tabor-smith, June Jordan, Sojourner Truth, Audre Lorde

Photos: Robbie Sweeny

Premiere: D.I.R.T Festival at Dance Mission Theater, SF (February 6,2016)

Length: 25 minutes