Mosaka's Travel is a new theatrical dance work that depicts the journey of a courageous South African girl, breaking free from the shackles of Apartheid's insidious racism and seeking solace in an ostensibly equal and promising land: the United States. This personal narrative unravels the coming-of-age story of the artist's mother, Dorothy Mosaka. With a dynamic ensemble, this work weaves a tapestry of movement, blending modern, contemporary, African, and jazz techniques. The performance begins amidst the idyllic landscapes of rural South Africa, transitions to Dorothy's journey to America, and ultimately illuminates the culmination of Mosaka's odyssey—a tale of new beginnings, love, motherhood, and the intricate nuances of pursuing the American Dream as a black woman in America. This work aims to resonate with the universal quest for identity, equality, and the indomitable human spirit, capturing the resilience of the human spirit as it embraces the universal pursuit of dreams.

Creating new plays takes time, open hearts, and dedicated space to nurture ideas. It takes a commitment to investing in artists and helping to discover and grow new voices. And it demands resources focused on process, artistic exploration, and room to risk. Our Stripped Bare Arts Incubator Project provides research and development time to at least four new projects per season – bolstering new artists, forms, and voices. A Stripped Bare project is not about sets, lights, props, and costumes. It is about actors, words, passion, movement, and ideas.

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Thulani Vereen is an Atlanta-based independent choreographer and a software engineer at Microsoft. Since graduating from Spelman College in 2020, Thulani has been an Artist in Residence at the Atlanta Contemporary via Dance Canvas, a Guest Artist with the Georgia Tech Science.Art.Wonder program, and the HomeTraining Experimental Gallery. In 2022, Thulani served as a Guest Artist at Spelman and the Illumine Festival. She was also awarded an Idea Capital Grant. Most recently, Thulani was selected to participate in Excuse The Art by Fly on a Wall and Windmill Arts Center. Thulani aims to create work that encapsulates the most authentic stories of humanity, leveraging dance as a vehicle to unlock new innovations. To learn more about Thulani, visit thulanivereen.com.