Shamel Pitts | TRIBE

Name: Shamel Pitts | TRIBE
Start: 2025-02-28T19:30:00-06:00
Location: Hancher

Schedule

Fri, 28 Feb, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Hancher | Iowa City, IA

Shamel Pitts—a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow in choreography—founded the multidisciplinary arts collective TRIBE in 2019. Touch of RED is the beautiful new entry in Pitts’s and TRIBE’s ongoing Red Series, which explores Black multiplicity and human connection. Touch of RED is a duet for Black men who come together in a boxing ring—not for a display of aggression but rather for an exploration of vulnerability, effeminacy, and healing. With the audience surrounding the ring—which is also a pulsing night club dance floor—the dancers connect over 10 rounds filled with energy, anticipation, and a shared softening that sweeps in the viewers as well as the performers.
PROGRAM:
Reimagining the boxing ring from a space of duels to one of duets, Touch of RED unfolds over the course of ten rounds:
1. RED Pollock
2. Lifeblood
3. Embers/Embraces
4. Interlude
5. Umbilical
6. The Glitch
7. gloves off!
8. Touching
9. Father | Son
10. Borderline Blood Burial
TICKETS
Adults $25
Students & Youth $10
Part of Hancher's 52nd season