In Residence

July 19 - 31

Rainbow Serpent Collective is a Black, queer, and femme multidisciplinary art collaborative based in Pittsburgh. The collective creates multidisciplinary art, film, installations, and dance performances that probe the frontier between technology, art, Blackness, and African cosmologies. The foundation of the work is the reclamation, modernization, and extension of traditional African knowledge systems, particularly from ancient Egyptian and West African (Yoruba, Dogon, Dagara, and Igbo) contexts.

Rainbow Serpent Collective innovates through a process that fuses multimedia technology, storytelling, and movement. While at The Yard, they will present a new work-in-progress — The Four World Ages — which picks up after the end of their current film project, Obi Mbu (The Primordial House).

The Four World Ages depicts the history of humanity in four ages, from the perspective of Igbo tradition: the Age of Universal Oneness, the Age of SelfAwareness, the Age of Light, and the Age of Suffering. The piece will feature eight dancers whose bodies will be adorned with fluorescent paints and illuminated by ultraviolet light as they enact the saga of human development outlined by Igbo mythology.

For more please visit: therainbowserpent.org/fourworldages marquesredd.com mikaelowunna.com marquitasams.com