Embodying Lost Histories

The series Embodying Lost Histories highlights works of Black speculative fiction. It features two artists of the African diaspora who engage in what American scholar Saidiya Hartman calls “critical fabulation.” Combining archival research with narrative invention, this storytelling method confronts the legacy of colonialism by reimagining the lives of those who were erased.  

In fall 2026, Rwandan French artist Dorothée Munyaneza shares an intimate solo dance piece centering on the 17th-century figure Tituba. In the spring, Nigerian American choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili returns with her collaborative project sweat variant, and a powerful new work exploring the consequences of rupture. Using movement and sound, the two performance-makers collapse the past, present, and future, and in doing so, rewrite the historical record.