_AShadowPrince Live-Streamed Video Premiere & Talkback

STREAMING May 30 at 6pm | Click here to watch

followed by a conversation with @j_bouey on IG Live
*It is recommended to listen to the video audio via headphones.

Stephen Petronio Company presents _AShadowPrince, the first commissioned work as part of the new Bloodlines(future) program. This solo on video by emerging choreographer and performer Johnnie Cruise Mercer was commissioned as a personalized self-portrait, a memoir tracking through his personal past yet treading toward an inherited epic future. The new work takes form within a multi-layered facilitated process, a scattered series of ritualistic happenings inspired by rebellion, rooted in the radical, and called upon by courage.

_AShadowPrince (2020)
Choreographic Director/Performer: Johnnie Cruise Mercer
Music Producer: Monstah Black
Kinetic Costume Design: Trebien Pollard
Creative Director/Video Editor: Torian Ugworji
Video Choreography: Thomas Jacobs
Process Manager: Shanice Mason
Promoter: Darnell Lamont Walker
Donated COVID-19 Mask: Abby Zbikowski

_AShadowPrince was made possible with support from the New York State Council on the Arts Dance Program’s Individual Artist Program.

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