View the Spelman performance here. Watch the trailer here. The program from the UGA production is available here. The 90-minute live production - titled By Our Hands - was co-produced in the 2019-20 production seasons of three departments: UGA Theatre, Spelman Dance Performance & Choreography, and Spelman Theatre & Performance. The production ran for four nights at each campus: at UGA in November 2019 and then at Spelman in February 2020. As a new work in development, we made changes to the production in its transfer from UGA to Spelman, incorporating students, who viewed a video of the performance and wrote us letters. The performance engaged deeply with the archival collections and contemporary writings by our incarcerated collaborators. Our aim for both audiences in Atlanta and Athens was to leave with a deeper understanding of the histories and contemporary realities of incarcerated labor, and what this inheritance does and means to us all, as Georgia residents. Production photographs by Alys Barrow.
