Pillow Lab: jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham
Residency: August 31 – September 10, 2021
Inside the Pillow Lab Screening: October 21, 2021 at 7pm Eastern
In the multi-year series Let ’im Move You, jumatatu m. poe and collaborator Jermone Donte Beacham distill decade-long research of J-Sette performance, a “high step” march popularized by the women’s majorette teams at historically Black colleges in the United States. They continued development at the Pillow Lab with new components of the project before embarking on a five-city tour.