Veiled Offerings

Three veiled dancers embody the pain, strength and poetry of Black resistance, and reshape a history of oppression into a divine call to love and liberation.

The ancestral spirits of West Africa rise up to face the legacy of the Code Noir (1658), the cruel set of rules in slave-trade days. Each order appearing on the screen as written text is followed by a powerful, divine counter-voice that reclaims the dignity, pain and power of the enslaved people. The expressive choreography of the three dancers embodies the ‘double consciousness’: the feeling you always have to look at yourself through the eyes of a society that denies your humanity. A poignant and poetical meditation on memory, resistance and healing.