d. Sabela grimes

photo by George Simian

Grant Recipient

photo by George Simian

Location

Los Angeles, CA

Project Title

PARABLE OF PORTALS

Fiscal Year Awarded

2022

Grant or Program

National Dance Project Production Grant

Grant Amount

$56,500

PARABLE OF PORTALS (POP) dreams Octavia E. Butler’s insights into audio-visual-movement experiences that shape a collection of modular interactive performances that occur between real and virtual environments. We travel between community-engaged places like my beloved Leimert Park Village, powered by the people, and virtual blockchain worlds like Cryptovoxels. POP is a doorway to and through time(s) and space(s) with physical and avatar bodies. In the spirit of Octavia Butler’s radical ingenuity, “AfroFuturism” is expressed as a means to create at the supple centers of current futures, present pasts, and the in-betweens of life and our liveliHOODs.

All land is sacred.
I live and be
on Tongva land
who are and have been
the caretakers of this area.
For that I am grateful.

Estimated Artist Fee: $20,000/performance or $35-45,000/week long residency

Artist's Work

In a gallery, with projections of different colors, two dancers swap. One has a long mask on that looks like fringe.

photo by Alon Koppel

In a gallery, a dancer (with a mask that inflates like a balloon in the back) sits on the ground in front of another dancer who stands (and wears a long tassled mask).

photo by Alon Koppel

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d. sabela grimes
dsabelagrimes@gmail.com