Tommy Noonan, Jassem Hindi, & Frank Mugisha/Culture Mill

ADF Commissioned World Premiere
Program: How To Be a Visitor
Running time: 65 minutes, no intermission
Post-Performance Discussion on June 21st

How To Be a Visitor is a new work by Culture Mill, conceived by dancer/choreographer Tommy Noonan in collaboration with artists across the world: Jassem Hindi (Palestine/France), Frank Mugisha (Rwanda/Uganda), Edgar Kanyike (Uganda), Sebulime Elisha Davis (Uganda), Cortland Gilliam (USA), and Caitlyn Swett (USA). This innovative performance connects artists and audiences across multiple countries through simultaneous, live-streamed solo performances in dance, sound, and poetry. Each participating location will host a live audience, with a screen displaying a real-time video feed from the other sites. These feeds will be mixed and manipulated live by Culture Mill's media designer on-site in Durham, North Carolina, creating a dynamic, shared visual experience across all locations. The result is an immersive, trans-cultural encounter where audiences witness the clarity and complexity of shared experience across distance - navigating what it means to be a visitor in bodies, languages, and contexts not entirely their own.

ADF offers a 20% discount to Duke employees and $20 tickets to Duke students. To access your discount, just log in with your Duke Net ID at tickets.duke.edu. Tickets on sale April 29!

Photo Credit: Michael Rhebergen, Anna Maynard, & Marie Ursin