TRIBE - Multidisciplinary Visual Performances

TRIBE - Multidisciplinary Visual Performances TRIBE’s mission is to cultivate a space of discovery and a platform for artists. Learn more about us: www.itsatribe.org

With artistic direction by choreographer and artist Shamel Pitts, TRIBE holds the Afrofuturistic movement as its biggest inspiration. >> itsatribe.org

Move with us. Create with us. Invest in Black art.This Black Philanthropy Month, Givebutter is adding a 5% match to all ...
08/06/2026

Move with us. Create with us. Invest in Black art.

This Black Philanthropy Month, Givebutter is adding a 5% match to all online donations made to TRIBE throughout August.

Your support helps TRIBE create, perform, tour, and build transformative artistic experiences around the world. Join TRIBE’s community of supporters and help sustain the future of Black-led performance.

Make your tax-deductible contribution before August 31 at itsatribe.org/bpm to leverage the 5% match!

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Photo 4 — Hannah Murphy; courtesy of Jacob’s Pillow
Photo 5 — Kameron Herndon; courtesy of Walker Art Center
Photo 6 — Delaney Greenberg; courtesy of Kelly Strayhorn Theater
Photo 7 — Jamie Kraus; courtesy of Jacob’s Pillow

✨ ANNOUNCEMENT ✨ 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑹𝑬𝑫 NYC Premiere Dates Lincoln Center We are thrilled to announce that TRIBE’s newest multidis...
08/05/2026

✨ ANNOUNCEMENT ✨ 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑹𝑬𝑫 NYC Premiere Dates Lincoln Center

We are thrilled to announce that TRIBE’s newest multidisciplinary creation, 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑹𝑬𝑫, will be a part of the Lincoln Center Contemporary Dance Festival in January 2027! Save the date for Marks of RED’s New York City homecoming at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall.

🔴 LINCOLN CENTER Contemporary Dance Festival
Alice Tully Hall
New York, NY
January 17–18, 2027

Additional information is available at the link in our bio.

New York City! We cannot wait to share this work with you. See you there!

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Slide 1 Video — Videographers: Adam Olson & Paul Moehring, courtesy of Walker Art Center

Slide 2 & 3 Photos — Douglas Mason, courtesy of MASS MoCA

Slides 4 Photo — Kameron Herndon, courtesy of Walker Art Center

“a TRIBE performance is so profoundly unique and expansive. Not just a layering of lighting on a stage of dancers moving...
07/17/2026

“a TRIBE performance is so profoundly unique and expansive. Not just a layering of lighting on a stage of dancers moving to a score, the TRIBE approach of collaborative creation among the series of artists really felt distinct and transformed the space and audience!”

A beautiful message we received from a patron after seeing our BLACK HOLE performance at New Victory New Victory Theater this week.

Words like these mean everything to us.

Huge thanks to everyone who came out to see BLACK HOLE at this week, and thank you NVT for having us!

Video: Adam Goldberg APG | Photo courtesy of New Victory Theater.

Touch of RED 🥊 3 more chances to experience the Bessie Award Winning production by Shamel Pitts | TRIBE at the Doris Duk...
06/26/2026

Touch of RED 🥊 3 more chances to experience the Bessie Award Winning production by Shamel Pitts | TRIBE at the Doris Duke Theatre. Final Tickets >> itsatribe.org/events

Shamel Pitts
Channce Williams
Jacob's Pillow
The Bessie Awards
TRIBE

The opening night of TRIBE’s Jacob’s Pillow debut with “Touch of RED” in the Doris Duke Theatre was incredible, touching...
06/25/2026

The opening night of TRIBE’s Jacob’s Pillow debut with “Touch of RED” in the Doris Duke Theatre was incredible, touching, and full-circle.

You have four more chances to experience “Touch of RED,” as part of the Pillow’s 94th Dance Festival. Join us in the Berkshires >> itsatribe.org/events

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Touch of RED | Artistic Team

Concept Direction & Choreographer: Shamel Pitts
Performers: Channce Williams & Shamel Pitts
Artistic Production Manager & Lighting Designer: Rus Snelling
Video Light & Mapping Designer: Lucca Del Carlo
Scenic Design: Mimi Lien
Costume Designer: Dion Lee
Costume Stylists: TT Britt & Tushrik Fredericks
Shoe Apparel: Fulton Cobbler (Brooklyn, NY) – customized “gloves”
Original Musical Score: Sivan Jacobovitz
Dramaturge: Ashley Pierre-Louis
Lindy Hop Instructor: LaTasha Barnes
Cinematographer: Taylor Antisdel
Photographers & Cinematographers: The Adeboyé Brothers
Stage Manager: Kaz Russell,
Lighting Associate: Nita Mendoza
Creative Director: Mirelle Martins
Artistic Administrator: E Katrina Lewis
Managing Director: Brittany Wilson
Development Director: Eric Umble
Digital Creative & Development Associate:Pam Panozzo
Press Agent: Kamila Slawinski
Worldwide Bookings: Lotus Arts Management, Sophie Myrtil-McCourty, [email protected]

Jacob’s Pillow will present American dancer, artist,choreographer, and TRIBE’s founding artistic director Shamel Pitts w...
06/25/2026

Jacob’s Pillow will present American dancer, artist,choreographer, and TRIBE’s founding artistic director Shamel Pitts with the Jacob’s Pillow Men Dancers Award. 🎉

Pitts will receive the award as TRIBE performs in the Doris Duke Theatre during the first week of the Festival.

Dancer, artist, and choreographer Shamel Pitts creates provocative dance works that “push against the boundaries of identity” (Dance Magazine). Pitts is a United States Artist Fellow (2026), a Stroke of Genius Fellow (2025), a MacArthur Fellow (2024), and a Guggenheim Fellow (2020). He received a Doris Duke Artist Award as well as a Knight Choreography Prize in 2024, and a Princess Grace Award in Choreography in 2018. Pitts’s “BLACK series” has toured extensively worldwide since 2016.

Congratulations, Shamel Pitts ♥️

Meet the Artist // Channce Williams creative practice encompasses elements of movement, poetry, and visual art. He began...
06/24/2026

Meet the Artist // Channce Williams creative practice encompasses elements of movement, poetry, and visual art. He began his training at the Center of Creative Arts and continued his studies at Point Park University, where he received his BFA.

Throughout his endeavors he has performed both new and restaged works by Kyle Abraham, Sidra Bell, Aszure Barton, and Maxine Doyle, among others. He has worked professionally with Sidra Bell Dance New York, GALLIM Dance Company, and Tanztheater Wuppertal, along with a cohort of independent choreographers including slowdanger, Hannah Garner, Demetris Charalambous, and Kashia Kancey.

Learn more >> itsatribe.org/channce | Channce Williams

Photography Tyler Blint-Welsh

“The presentation of Touch of RED at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (June 24–June 28, 2026) marks the full reopening ...
06/24/2026

“The presentation of Touch of RED at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (June 24–June 28, 2026) marks the full reopening of the Doris Duke Theatre. Redesigned by the Netherlands-based firm Mecanoo, the new theater emerges as a renewed and sustainable performance space, embedded in the surrounding landscape and attentive to the site’s Indigenous memory, through the integration of medicinal native plants and artworks by Indigenous artists within both the landscape and the architectural design.”

—Luca Avigo, Lampoon Magazine

Read full articles, interviews and more at itsatribe.org/media

♥️ Thank you The New Yorker Marina Harss Kamila Slawinski Lampoon Luca Avigo Ross Belfer, Dance Gazette for featuring us.

06/23/2026

🥊 Starts Tomorrow // Touch of RED live performances, live stream, digital artwork, and artist talk at Jacob's Pillow
Got your tickets yet? itsatribe.org/events

Video: Adeboyé Brothers David Adeboye Matthew Adeboye PALETTE

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