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Acclaimed Durham-based cellist Shana Tucker and Saxapahaw-based French choreographer Murielle Eliz\u00e9on (co-creator of Culture Mill) present When We were Queens\u2026, a powerful multidisciplinary performance presented as a diptych\u2014two solos in conversation. <\/p>\n

“When We were Queens\u2026 is shaped as a ritual to call the ancestors. It is the whispering of a spell. It is an attempt to reclaim a lost mythology through somatic embodied imagination. It seeks to face the void of erasure for individual and collective healing. It is shaped as a diptych: two solos in conversation to acknowledge both the singularity of Murielle and Shana\u2019s cultural experience (one is French, the other is American) and the common thread running through their experience as women of color from the African Diaspora. The performance convokes the audience for a moment of shared witnessing while acknowledging the complexity of a gaze which has often exoticized our Black and Brown bodies.”<\/p>\n

Commissioned by NC State Live, the original development of the work began in 2022 and after subsequent series of museum and gallery residencies, When We were Queens\u2026 held its world premiere in February 2024, co-presented by NC State Live and the North Carolina Museum of Art. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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