Christian A.
Warner: WE GATHER

WE GATHER HERE is an ensemble dance-theater work and sound bath experience exploring the intimate spaces where people retreat to confide and rehabilitate. Inspired by Afrofuturist speculation in Octavia Butler’s ‘Parable of the Talents’, ‘The Wiz’, and ‘Brother from Another Planet’, the work imagines a network of Eternals—carriers of memory who move quietly through generations—reuniting for a family reunion. Choreography, live sound, and set design create environments where bodies recalibrate together and frame assembly as both ritualistic and strategic technologies. Performance collaborators: Rachel Harris, Elinor-Klebber Diggs, AJ Libert, DaMond Garner, Denise Ward, and Christian Warner. Supported by the HSPVA Black Alumni Network, the 2026 Princess Grace Special Project Award, and the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation. Fiscally sponsored by New York Live Arts, Inc.