Sheena Johnson

Sheena will choreograph Wade in the Water, as part of the Movement from the Margins performance event. This piece is a response to what Sheena witnessed when she traveled to New Orleans in solidarity with poor people and people of color in Hurricane Katrina effected areas. In New Orleans, it was clear to the world how racism and classism enacts its violence on the bodies of black people, from police brutality to forced displacement and gentrification to homelessness to forced labor, and so on. Understanding that these same issues exist in Philadelphia, this collaborative performance piece will serve to raise consciousness by illustrating the continuum of oppression faced by people of color throughout this country. The goal is for the audience to leave with the realization that dismantling systems of oppression and envisioning the creation of an alternative world that values our humanity and self-determination must be a priority for us all.