"Rehearsals for a Time Undone" explores restagings through theatrical and performative modalities, speech acts, and active readings of archival documents, which are mobilized in service of present need, forging choreopolitical connections and solidarities across spatiotemporal distance. Diasporic movement’s formal inscription in the gestures of the body is performed through scripts and scores revisited, opening a new perspective on history. 

Bouchra Khalili’s film "The Tempest Society" (2017) connects histories of resistance in contemporary austerity-ridden Athens and 1970s Paris, through a proletarian theater troupe, which organized North African workers around immigration and racism through plays and storytelling. 

Tarik Kiswanson’s video "The Reading Room" (2019) and newly commissioned live performance meditates on the question of exile, home, diaspora, and identity through the poetic and fragmented performance of a child.

Monica Restrepo’s film and installation "Tacones (In the making)" (2014) re-stages scenes from a lost film, a 1980s Colombian adaptation of West Side Story, tracing the cultural migrations of salsa dancing and the preservation of a repertoire of movements in the bodies of dancers. 

Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s installation, "The Philly Bop" (2019), explores the eponymous Black social dance through an autoethnographic lens using photography, video, and audio interviews, as she learns the dance from elders who carry on its disappearing legacy.