let slip, hold sway — sweat variant – okwui okpokwasili & peter born

let slip, hold sway
2025

Presented as part of the exhibition Edges of Ailey at the Whitney Museum of American Art, let slip, hold sway continues ongoing research into the entanglement between ancestors and the role of ritual using the aesthetics of experimentation and unexpected collaborations as an homage to Alvin Ailey.

Created by Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born
Movement developed by Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born in collaboration with performers Bria Bacon, Kris Lee, and Katrina Reid
Stage Management by Maia Tivony
Sound Consultancy by Jimmy Garver
Dramaturgy by Katherine Profeta
Costume Fabrication by James Gibbel
Produced by Annabel Heacock and Linsey Bostwick
Project Management by Kearra Gopee
Archival research by Ntshadi Mofokeng
Studio Apprentice: Danielle Eregie
Project Assistant: Sarah Lou Haddad

This performance installation is produced by Sweat Variant.
Support for Sweat Variant is provided in part by the Mellon Foundation.
Commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of Edges of Ailey.

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6-8, 2025

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