After having launched his career with Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Hell’s Kitchen Dance and BJM_Danse Montreal, Shamel Pitts performed with Israel’s Batsheva Company for seven years. He founded TRIBE in 2016 and has since performed and toured extensively to many festivals around the world. Touch of RED is a multidisciplinary duet inspired by the rapid-fire footwork of boxing, the African-American jazz style Lindy Hop, Gaga movement language, and nightlife culture. It examines the way Black men are perceived by others and themselves in contemporary society. As the last new work to be developed in the Pillow’s original Doris Duke Theatre before it was destroyed by fire, Touch of RED was premiered at MASS MoCA in an engagement that was co-sponsored by Jacob’s Pillow.
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