the déjà vu black dreams & black time

Emerging from the intersection of pandemic and uprising,the déjà vuactivates forms both new and ancestral, drawing movement, speech, and lyric essay into performance memoir. As Civil considers Haitian tourist paintings, dance rituals, race at the movies, black feminist legacies, and more, she reflects on her personal losses and desires, speculates on black time, and dreams into expansive black life. With intimacy, humor, and verve,the déjà vublurs boundaries between memory, grief, and love; then, now, and the future.