Inside the Morris-Jumel Mansion, a historic house museum and Manhattan's oldest residence, an exhibit, entitled The Fabric of Emancipation, addresses a history of injustice against African Americans.
Those who laid claim to the greatest power at court chose scarlet as the colour of their retinue's livery - the sumptuary laws permitted a person of sufficient rank to dress their entire household in the expensive fabrics and colours they were entitled to wear themselves.
One of the troupe's offerings, by Jacob Marley, a fellow Laban alumnus, was entitled "Does Your Crimplene Go All Crusty When You Rub?" (Crimplene is a polyester fabric. The dance was set to a medley of Mantovani, ABBA, and Scottish folk tunes).
We've used the dS technology to make a dance performance entitled Hidden Fields, designed to evoke the hidden energy matrix and atomic world that forms the fabric of nature, but is too small for our eyes to see.
They feel they're entitled.
Everyone's entitled to that.
