Jamal Jackson Dance Company Premiere of Adultification

 JJDC will premiere Adultification 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.

Adultification was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.