The piece, which premiered in part at the 2022 Fertile Ground festival, blends dance and theater and takes inspiration from director/choreographer Alisher Khasanov's own life.
In Let ’im Move You: Intervention, jumatatu m. poe and Jermone ‘Donte’ Beacham bring Black queer performance to the parks and sidewalks of historically Black neighborhoods.
The inaugural fellow, Zi Alikhan, will collaborate with the company’s artistic director while also heading up ART’s new DNA: Oxygen initiative for BIPOC theater practitioners.
“We cannot escape the fact that we are the Oregon Ballet Theatre and we are located in Portland, Oregon. And our community has gone through quite a lot over the last six months.”
