Jamal Jackson Dance Company

An evening of works from Jamal Jackson Dance Company.

JJDC will present Adultification and The Temple, Burn It Down at Arts On Site on October 26th.

Adultification refers to the racial bias in which people perceive black children as older and less innocent than other children. Black boys can be seen as responsible for their actions at an age when most boys still benefit from the assumption that children are innocent. This work will explore the joy we can and should see in young black lives and juxtaposes it with the forced adulthood that is set on these young black lives.

The Temple, Burn it Down plays with the subtle contradiction of the body as an honored temple of art while also serving as a debilitating instrument that a dancer assiduously manipulates during his or her career.

Photo by Beccavision