sum of y'all 

A Multimedia Dance Experience by PearlArts

MARCH 28-29 @ 7:30PM Doors / 8:00PM Show
Braddock Arts and Media Building

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Join us at 818 Braddock Avenue, Braddock, PA, 15104

Save the date for the PearlArts Movement & Sound’s next Premier, sum of y’all, and check out their new studio home in Braddock. More information on studio tours, receptions and artist talks to come.

sum of y’all by PearlArts is a movement-based multimedia work reflecting on the impermanence of community and the erasure of historically Black spaces. Inspired by conversations on displacement, migration, and memory, the piece uses ritual as an organizing framework, pulling the audience in as active observers. Dancers merge, disperse, and reassemble, embodying the cycles of change that shape communities. Through striking visual imagery and a haunting original score, the work sparks conversations about expansion, loss, and evolution.

Running Time: 60 minutes (no intermission)
Choreography: Staycee Pearl in collaboration with company dancers
Concept Collaborator: Marvin Touré
Music Director and Co-Composer: Herman Pearl
Collaborating Musicians: James Johnson III, Erik Lawrence, Eli Namay, Mark Micchelli
Media Design: Scott Andrew