Structured as an elaborate memory card game, this work challenges performers to engage in an essential Black cultural practice – sharing the stories that make us who we are, even when we have forgotten pieces along the way.

The movement practice at the root of Cameo is called “forgotten body.” This practice is an attempt to abandon what performers want to know in favor of what they can’t. It asks performers to forget how to dance, to be constantly relearning their body, to risk moving sensibly for moving sensitively. In Cameo, the performers must lose themselves in the task, in their bodies, but maintain a commitment to wanting to know each other more.