Weightless is a multimedia (video, sound and dance oh my) dive into the freedom of being submerged in water and the stigma that keeps people, particularly black fat femmes from the water. It is my personal freedom journey into body acceptance and bodily autonomy. Created by Monique Muse Dodd for Center for Performance Research Program:New Voices in Live Performance Walking With Water : is a weekend of events centering around environmental racism and justice, land sovereignty, and healing the Earth through ancestral spiritual practices. These themes will be explored through life performance, workshops, and multimedia installations.

Music by Tariq Al- Sabir Dancer Chanté Michele Directed, Shot & Edited by Monique Muse Dodd

(Re) mnants is as much a film as it is a ritual. It is an ongoing preformative ritual of communing with ancestors, whose names she doesn’t know, yet whose spirits hold an everlasting influence on her life and artistic process. Utilizing video, soundscape, and projection mapping, I refashion my family history to create a portal for participants to cross the boundary between the imagined and the biographical, the physical and the spiritual, the living and the ancestors. (Re)mnants is a memorial and a rebirth and a reminder that although we hold all of our ancestors trauma, we also hold their resilience, joy and dreams.