Silver Lining is a contemporary dance duet performed by two Black men. The piece explores the concept of bodily remembrance as a tool for honoring where you come from, embracing identity, reclaiming history and imagining a liberated future. In response to recent rollbacks on DEI initiatives and the censorship of educational content centering the experiences of people of color, this work asks: What happens to us when our history is no longer taught? How will we remember? What have we lost—and what might we gain in the act of remembrance?

Envisioned as a 15-minute duet, the piece moves across three symbolic realities: past, present, and future, defined by a movement language that integrates gesture, social dance cues, theatrical play, contemporary dance, improvisational based storytelling, and multi-genre techniques. Throughout the piece, the movement language is a guiding tool that evolves, adapts, and is transposed to show the interconnectivity and fluidity across these worlds.