Assembly | Trailer
Preview: Season 27 Episode 13 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Follow the creation of an exhibition honoring Black and queer culture that blends vogue and AI.
Artist Rashaad Newsome prepares a visionary exhibition that fuses vogue, artificial intelligence, and global performance. As dancers from around the world gather at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, the development of "Assembly" showcases a celebration of Black and queer culture, plus a radical call to imagine new futures.
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Assembly | Trailer
Preview: Season 27 Episode 13 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Artist Rashaad Newsome prepares a visionary exhibition that fuses vogue, artificial intelligence, and global performance. As dancers from around the world gather at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, the development of "Assembly" showcases a celebration of Black and queer culture, plus a radical call to imagine new futures.
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A Conversation with Rashaad Newsome
Our interview with interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome, co-director and protagonist of Assembly and creator of Being the Digital Griot.Providing Support for PBS.org
Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- I see vogue femme performance as open-source code, comprised of hands performance, catwalk, floor performance, spin dips, and duck walking.
- Voguing showed me how to be myself with power.
- When I'm voguing, I'm a diva.
- This show is a reclaiming.
It's a beautiful way to visualize, Black queer experience.
- We have not had opportunities to exist this loudly.
- Assembly is a new world.
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