I’m elated to say I’m in dis show ya’ll….

Fridays & Saturdays, May 8, 9, 15, 16, 22 & 23* @ 7:30pm
Tickets: $20 (general), $15 (student/senior)
At Dixon Place (NYC)

*Special S’kin Deep Event!
- Reception with artists at 6:30pm +talk back after show =$30

S’Kin DEEP is a soulful dance refracting notions of heritage, beauty, tribal energy and ancestral memories. Baraka de Soleil / D UNDERBELLY’s newest project summons up indigenous physical & ambient sensations from Africa, Australia & the Americas, as SK’in DEEP interweaves a powerful landscape of spirited loose-limbed bodies energized by jazz theater pioneer Sharon Bridgforth’s poetic text & innovative percussionist Jmy Lopez’s otherworldly rhythms.

D UNDERBELLY exists as an ever-fluid underground network of artists of color celebrating its tenth year of developing performative experiences for theatre, dance, site-specific and alternative spaces. Founded by award-winning choreographer, performance artist & curator, Baraka de Soleil, this network has premiered a dynamic range of projects including: Tagg’n, N This Hous, First Dark Drama, Koool-aid Luv Odyssey, Egress and has been in residence at: Brooklyn Arts Exchange; Dixon Place; Ontological Hysteric Theatre; Tribeca Performing Arts Center; & Queens Museum of Art. Currently based in Brooklyn, Ny, D UNDERBELLY’S continuum spans a multidiscipline range of artists - from spoken word performers to musical artists - who are very engaged in the act of inter-disciplined exploration in order to develop investigative practices & processes that allow for communal exchange and enlightening discovery. The name references ‘the underbelly of a slave ship’; excavating the energy that surfaces from our cultural experiences.

BARAKA DE SOLEIL has been involved in the experimental movement, music and performance art scene, throughout the country and internationally, for the past 15 years. His artistry reflects moving images excavated from the multilayered traditions of the African diaspora, immersed in an urban contemporary reality; actively crafting from ancestral memories, post-modern aesthetics and cultural legacies He currently curates the multi-disciplined series, Studies N Black, and freelances as a teaching artist throughout the country. For his choreographic work on Sango: Lord of Thunder, Baraka was awarded the prestigious Katherine Dunham choreography/AUDELCO for excellence in Black Theatre at the 34th annual VIV ceremony.

Made possible with generous support from The Greenwall Foundation, the Jerome Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.