b3 design lab - Movement

I came into this world dancing.

And I'll never stop.

[and then we must be] - audrey johnson - 2022

[and then we must be] - Audrey Johnson, 2022

performers: Audrey Johnson, Leila Shabazz, Bay laurel O'Connor

premiered June 2-4, and 9-11 at Counterpulse in San Francisco, California USA

"Inspired by ancestral, community-centered, and spiritual relationships to land and plants, [and then we must be] is a research and ritual project honoring Black American practices with land and plants through the modes of food, farming, rootwork, and magic. The work honors the practices that get passed down through recipe, spell, and story, as well as the memories active and activated in the body, plants, the land (soil, clay, mycelium, strata), and in spirit. The dancing is a movement offering, ritual, and prayer: in communion with spirit, plants, and land. [and then we must be] is the process of meeting and being met by plants and land, and of allowing oneself to be changed." Choreographed by Audrey Johnson co-performed with Leila Shabazz.

Sii Agua Si - Liz Boubian, 2022

performers: Leila Shabazz, Carmina Marquez, Bay laurel O'Connor

premiered October 1 at The 9th Annual Festival of Latin American
Contemporary Choreographers and Dance Mission Theater

Sii agua sí
Remembering the Waterways in Yelamu

Breakdown Sanctuary - Francesco Asha Passalacqua, 2020

performers: Bay laurel O'Connor

"how might we remember regulation with the earth through attuning to rest as a reconfiguration, not mere pause? not rest due to exhaustion, but because of metamorphosis. rest not as escape, but as an inquiry into how stillness sustains life. what if we were to weave a sanctuary out of the broken pieces of our world, of our identities, of our failures, our shortcomings and our excesses? and, like the bird’s nest made from ephemeral fragments of the forest, protect and nourish the potential for new life. what if our spirit’s ripening, our revolutionary dreams and our species survival depended on reviving this terrestrial intimacy: learning to recycle our brokenness into the sanctuaries that will birth unknown worlds." Directed by Francesco Asha Passalacqua