Same As Sister's The Exciting Event… explores the entwined identities and histories of slave and slaveholder as a site for compulsive reenactment. Inspired by slave narratives, fairy tales, and the dual traditions of Cakewalk and minstrel shows, the work presents a fragmented story of race, gender, and power. Drawing on multiple movement vocabularies including Dancehall and Postmodern dance, the piece plays at the edge of the fictive and historical past and present, telling a tale that is both inconclusive and inevitable.

Choreographed and Performed by: Same As Sister/Briana Brown-Tipley + Hilary Brown-Istrefi in collaboration with Kristina Hay and Rahmus Rifical
Dramaturgy by: Susan Mar Landau
Video Projections by: Same As Sister/Briana Brown-Tipley + Hilary Brown-Istrefi
Sound Design by: Same As Sister/Briana Brown-Tipley + Hilary Brown-Istrefi in collaboration with Lamy Istrefi
Costumes and Props by: Same As Sister/Briana Brown-Tipley + Hilary Brown-Istrefi
Lighting Design by: Tim Cryan

The creation of The Exciting Event... was made possible, in part, by the Danspace Project 2017-18 Commissioning Initiative with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.