Saturday, April 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM to Sunday, July 5, 2026 at 6:00 PM
REDCAT, Los Angeles
Artist Reception: April 11 at 6 PM [RSVP](https://www.redcat.org/form/opening-reception-harmony-26) *Harmony Holiday: Spectacular Brooding *investigates the spectacles and secrets of black grief. Considering the tension between private ritual and public display within this tradition, the Los Angeles-based artist’s exhibition considers what she calls the “Black Backstage” as a zone of sacred privacy that makes the spectacularization of performance bearable. In contrast to commercial reproduction of music, dance, and film that distorts black artistry, Harmony positions the home and the studio as intimate spaces of black creative life. The exhibition divides the gallery into two spaces: the dance studio and the cutting room. In the studio, Holiday will rehearse live and record her preparatory process towards the performance of a solo dance, which marks a return to live dance performance for the first time in decades. Holiday’s choreography will consider iconic expressions of black grieving in choreography by Alvin Ailey, Judith Jamison, Bill T. Jones, Katherine Dunham, and Robert Battle, as well as gestures of black performance and everyday life in digital culture. A mourner’s bench will provide a place of solitude and public memorial, inviting people to listen to oral histories and to engage with Holiday’s own writing. In the cutting room, Holiday will screen an excerpt of a new film that considers these themes through a documentary of a living artist. Harmony Holiday will take Katherine Dunham Technique classes with choreographer Bernard Brown in the gallery on the following schedule: Wednesday, April 8 - 12pm Wednesday, April 15 - 12pm Wednesday, April 22 - 12pm Wednesday, April 29 - 12pm Wednesday, May 6 - 12pm Wednesday, May 13 - 12pm Wednesday, May 20 - 12pm Wednesday, June 3 - 12pm Wednesday, June 12 - 12pm Wednesday, June 24 - 12pm Thursday, June 25 - 12pm Wednesday, July 1 - 12pm