On Sunday 17th July 2022, Cleo, Kabbo, Latisha, Penny and Precious delivered the first public performance of the memorial folk dance developed through our workshop series. This was especially poignant as this year was the 50th Bristol Harbour Festival. The dance was performed on the Trinity Centre takeover dance stage, Millennium Square and featured an introduction to the project and forthcoming augmented reality app from Kwesi Johnson, and Cleo Lake also led an explanation of some of the key dance moves and their meaning and a tutorial for the crowd. Thank you so much everyone who came and supported us, and especially everyone who joined in! Watch this space for further tutorials so you can learn the dance for a mass participation event in August…
Researching and countering Bristol's memory of enslavement through dance