2025

PRESENTING RAGE

Premiered on May 16, 2025 at GIBNEY Dance Center

Choreographed and Produced by Camryn Stafford with support from Turning Tables Inc., the CUNY Dance Initiative, Queensborough Community College, HR & Co, and Phenixx Marketing

Pulling from the values of Lordean Rage, Presenting Rage explores how we can use rage as a generative tool guided by care, compassion, empathy, and love to dismantle racial hierarchy and white supremacy and push for positive social change. Dancers explore how traditional rage occupies the body and how its embodied energy can be re-directed in the pursuit of Lordean Rage. Rage is an investigative tool used to discover the multi-faceted layers of embodied and complex emotions. Presenting Rage re-defines what it means to be “angry” and imagines a world where we achieve positive social transcendence.

ARTISTIC COLLABORATORS

DANCERS: Justin Daniels, Starla Edwards, Asmani Sanders, Dymon Smith, Storm Stokes

ORIGINAL MUSIC COMPOSITION: Michel Banabila

COSTUME DESIGN: Ayinde Bradford

SCENIC DESIGNERS: Cam My Nguyen, Aishah Balogun

PHOTOGRAPHY: Alice Chacon, Benjamin Harrison

VIDEOGRAPHY: Makenna Finch, Kirsten Pardo

What People Are Saying

“Presenting Rage was transformative!”

“Invigorating and captivating! A release that the audience could feel.”

“Watching the work made me feel like I could let go of the anger I hold onto.”

“Presenting Rage is exactly what we need right now. With so much to be angry about, Presenting Rage shows that Contemporary dance has the power to communicate.”

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