"The Conversation Series: Stitching the Geopolitical Quilt to Re-Body Belonging" World Dance Premier

Lafayette native Helanius J. Wilkins is a national award-winning choreographer and dance artist currently based in Boulder, Colorado—who is returning home to premiere his new full-length dance production The Conversation Series: Stitching the Geopolitical Quilt to Re-Body Belonging. The groundbreaking project combines technology, interactive gaming, music, fashion, and design and is inspired by a walking practice in which Wilkins walked up to sixteen miles a day to unlearn fear—and is performed by Wilkins and his creative partner Brandon Welch, bringing together two men with different racial and cultural backgrounds to explore interactions and collaborations between different sorts of bodies and experiences. Both nights will include performances by special guest vocalist and singer-songwriter Erica Fox. acadianacenterforthearts.org.