The multi-genre, collaborative performance looks at Black flight and Black genius through a transcendent layup by Julius Erving. Two poet laureates, David Gaines and Yolanda Wisher, share the text during the performance.
'Be Holding' was co-created by poet Ross Gay and its director, Brooke O'Harra.
He says he takes that moment of "almost unfathomable, imagination and genius," and then veers off into other historical and familial places.O'Harra says when the poets perform, it's almost like tossing the ball since one poet will throw a line to the other.
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