The Blueprints:
Archiving, Errantry, and Prayer Work

Harge is currently developing an archival project rooted in choreographic strategies she has developed and inherited as an independent artist in Detroit, MI. The archive holds dozens of scrolls of butcher paper she has accumulated over the last decade of her studio practice, each inscribed with thought, prayer, experimentation, declaration, theory, and process. These papers reveal her relationships with score-making; the body as material; Black scholarship; Black elder and ancestral wisdom; Detroit’s political, cultural, and natural landscapes; and sustained community connections. 

Through the research process, the archive is an active presence, insisting that Harge and collaborators listen into the papers to hear what they want to offer back to the world.

Project Interlocutors: Marcia Black, Devin Drake, Laila Franklin, and Miryam Johnson

The project has been supported by the Dance/USA Archiving and Preservation Fellowship and the Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship.