Edible tales: Performance
Edible Tales is a multimedia dance installation exploring cultural heritage, social justice and sustainability.
Through a community-centered creative process, we co-create with our audiences and community members and transform food stories into impactful and authentic moveMEANT narratives - on stage, outdoors, and on films.
Edible Tales started in the thick of the Pandemic, when the call for healing and nourishment was highlighted from our community. A combination of touring performance and community program, the project explores cultural heritage, social justice and environmental sustainability.
Using food-related topics, the production shares embodied experiences, practices, and presentations rooted in BIPOC storytelling and indigenous land stewardship practices. An example is visiting an ancient Hawaiian fishpond to help with restoration efforts, learning about reciprocal ahupuaʻa land-care practices that honor ancestral stories & memories, and talking to community elders about Soul Food and its connections to the Black American experiences and the ancestral flavors from West Africa.
Our community and ancestral stories are transformed into movement narratives performed by intergenerational & multicultural artists. For its 2nd iteration, Edible Tales: Hoʻoulu , will uplift stories from communities impacted by Lāhaina and Los Angeles fires.
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Acknowledgement
Edible Tales was created with the funding and in-kind support from New England Foundation for the Arts National Tour and Production Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, Hawaiʻi Council For the Humanities, Brooklyn Arts Council, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Puffin Foundation, La Mama Experimental Theatre, Dance/NYC, ART NY Creative Opportunities Fund, Brooklyn Grange, Page Dance Academy, Waiwai Collective and Papahana Kuaola.