Keeper of Sadness is an immersive performance and living archive centering the experiences of Black women, queer & gender-nonconforming individuals.

The work brings together movement, sound, and storytelling to explore grief as something ancestral, collective, and deeply personal. It reflects on the intergenerational impacts of trauma, societal narratives, and historical erasure while holding space for memory, resilience, and reclamation.

Keeper of Sadness invites audiences into a shared encounter with grief. Not as something to resolve, but as something to witness, carry, transmute and understand on a deeper level.

This installation unfolds over two evenings at Union Station in Seattle.Audiences will move through a space shaped by performance, sound, and projection-based media, encountering the work in a way that is both intimate and collective. Visual elements are integrated into the environment, extending movement and narrative beyond the body and into the space itself. Light, image, and sound operate alongside the performers, creating a layered experience that is both physical and atmospheric.

Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, Keeper of Sadness invites audiences into a dynamic, immersive unfolding. Viewers are not positioned outside the work, but within it—witnessing and engaging with the emotional and spatial presence of the piece.