THE CALLING is a performance installation that aims to uncover the intersectionality between the transatlantic slave trade, afro-futurism, and water-consciousness. Supported by Film, live sound scoring, sculpture, and movement. We are recreating a source of healing and a site of terror, a cradle of freedom and a resting place for death, a harbinger of disaster, and a place of shelter and safety. If nature is reflective of our spiritual, emotional, and societal conditions, as we pollute the Earth and water, are we also polluting our spiritual bodies? Dancers: Cyan Hunter, Jelani Best, Star Mitchell, Kneaku Ashe Sound: Doum Videography: Kaylea Scott

Performed for EMERGENYC Flagship at Abrons Arts Center June 2023

Resident Artist Star Mitchell is using their personal history as a multidisciplinary practice in Reclaiming the Home. Reclaiming the Home is an exhibit, bringing attention towards the relationship between sexual assault , Hyper sexuality, and BDSM culture. While reclaiming ownership over the home that is our body, Mitchell is continuously implementing healing as a practice through their work. Standing firmly in their pleasure (as an Assault Survivor) without fear, or judgement is the inspiration behind this work. “Reclaiming the Home “creates a gaze into Star’s home through Sexual Spells. Visual Mediums will be in the form of movement, virtual poetry, cinematic exempts and natural elements. Creating the bridge between Personal Boundaries after sexual assault and Boundaries within BDSM Practices. Performed February 13.2022 in Collaboration with Jelani Best for Center for Performance Researchers Sunday Salon. Closing Statement : I am grateful that I have a platform to share something so personal and most importantly shed these experiences as I am not who I was, and only I can determine who I am. As I continue to re-work my personal and shared narratives. I ask the community for kindness and feedback in. the comments. Tell me how it made you feel! What sounds or sensations really came up for you.

Directed and Composed by Gladstone Buttler Performed by Gladstone Buttler, Mobéy Lola Irizarry, Mafer Bandola, and Star Mitchell at Princeton University 2024

Warm, That's How it Began is a digital performance featuring the five 2019 - 2020 Healing the Black Body Fellows: Arielle Moore, Noel Cifuentes, Starshae Mitchell, TJ, and Zion Spencer. The five fellows spent months in quarantine researching and defining healing and liberation in Black queer and trans communities and for themselves, reading Audre Lorde, and making art. This is their healing process. Film edited by Muse Dodd. Healing the Black Body is facilitated by Nana Chinara. Debuted on December 3rd, 2020.

Short Film created by Star Mitchell with Archive curation my Arielle Moore to prelude "Reclaiming The Home " Choreographed by Star Mitchell Shown February 2022 at Center for Performance Research. Star Mitchell is using their personal history as a multidisciplinary practice in Reclaiming the Home. Reclaiming the Home is an exhibit, bringing attention towards the relationship between sexual assault , Hyper sexuality, and BDSM culture. While reclaiming ownership over the home that is our body, Mitchell is continuously implementing healing as a practice through their work. Standing firmly in their pleasure (as an Assault Survivor) without fear, or judgement is the inspiration behind this work. “Reclaiming the Home “creates a gaze into Star’s home through Sexual Spells. Visual Mediums will be in the form of movement, virtual poetry, cinematic exempts and natural elements. Creating the bridge between Personal Boundaries after sexual assault and Boundaries within BDSM Practices.

Home is in your body... So come home with us