Two Black men stand facing each other. The man on the left has short braids. The man on the right is bald. The stage is mostly bare except for a stool in the far upper left corner. The setting is reminiscent of a boxing ring, and the playing area is drenched in red light.

The lobby filled with the heat of many bodies on April 8 for closing night of Shamel Pitts|TRIBE’s Touch of Red, the first program of the MCA’s spring On Stage series on Blackness and movement, Frictions, curated by Tara Aisha Willis. By the spiral staircase, the short film Touch of Red: Overture plays on a […]

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