Step into The Dark Swan
For a long time, The Dark Swan has lived in conversations, pages, rehearsals, and images. Now choreography is being built, locations are being prepared, and cast members are stepping into these characters.
Raven is becoming real.
On the South Side of Chicago, a young Black dancer stands at the edge of two worlds — the classical stage that demands she erase herself, and the ancestral memory she carries in her body whether she wants to or not.
The Dark Swan is a short film about what gets buried in Black women across generations — and what it costs to dig it back up.
"I'm making this film for our daughters — so they will know that everything they are, everything they were told was too much, is exactly the right amount. And for the women before them whose names we almost lost."
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