This improvised composition combines dance, song and drumming, inviting us to travel slowly with the performers through the entrance ways to Tate Modern's subterranean Tanks. Solo flamenco dancer Yinka Esi Graves is joined by Antonia Fernandez and drummer Remi Graves for Transposition, a work exploring knowledges of the body and how they relate to history and memory.
Yinka Esi Graves’ work explores the links between flamenco and other forms of bodily expression, particularly from a contemporary and African diaspora perspective. Like her broader work, which brings to light the contribution of African people to the creation of flamenco culture, with Transposition, Esi Graves uses her body and choreography to reaffirm dance as a space of freedom and self-determination. Speaking of Transposition, she says this derives from a desire to 'hack, haunt, commune, transpose the invisibility', to 'make it a dance, on repeat'.
These performances are presented as part of Theatre Picasso.
Theatre Picasso is presented in The George Economou Gallery. In partnership with White & Case. Also supported by the Huo Family Foundation. With additional support from the Theatre Picasso Exhibition Supporters Circle, Tate Americas Foundation and Tate Members.
Staged by Wu Tsang and Enrique Fuenteblanca with the collaboration of exhibition designer Lucie Rebeyrol from the studio Roll.
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