If all goes according to the grand design of Evidence founder Ronald K. Brown, those attending Tuesday’s performance by the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based dance troupe will come away “lifted up, feeling their potential and knowing everything is possible if we’re open.”
Brown founded the company in 1985 to celebrate the ritual and journey of dance as well as to “promote understanding of the human experience in the African Diaspora through dance and storytelling,” according to the website.
Each dance, he said, begins with an idea and then is followed by images. “Then I try to dance those images out.”
Evidence will perform in Chattanooga as part of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s Patten Performance Series. The dancers will feature three pieces: “Ise (My Heart)”; “Incidents, A Woman’s Piece”; and “On Earth Together.”
“Incidents” derives its title from “Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl” by Harriet Jacobs.