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THE SECRET SHARER

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Creating Queer-normative spaces for LGBTQ2SPIAA+ community building and healing!

DNAWORKS is adapting Joseph Conrad’s 1909 novella The Secret Sharer into a mixed-media performance work. Considered an early Queer text, The Secret Sharer integrates dance/text/music/projections and will be performed in an open-concept space with audiences co-creating the environment and the narrative. In an extension of our community storycircle practice, audience members will share their stories during the performance, interspersed at critical moments in the narrative.

This devised work is an exploration of fragility, tenderness, and intimacy in times of personal duress and societal discrimination–—the narrative of a silent, shared connection between two outsiders in the face of violence. In response to an increase in both hate crimes and the visibility of LGBTQQ2SPIAA+ youth suicides worldwide, we are creating spaces for resiliency and healing.

Thanks to your support, we are continuing the developmental process with an anticipated premiere in 2025.

In the face of current legislation and the threats of lessening rights, we need your support in creating Queer-normative spaces for LGBTQ2SPIAA+ community building and healing.

Below check out a "peek under the tent" from our 2020 developmental residency in Moncton, Canada. Community member Zivi offers her story interspersed with the narrative of the performance. The co-creators featured here are Kwesi Johnson, Adam W. McKinney, and Ken Norris. The other co-creators are Daniel Banks, Giovanni Ortega, and Papi Salgado.

For more information, visit www.dnaworks.org/secretsharer