The Geneva Project

An inter-disciplinary dance work exploring history, blood memory, and the traces of an ancestral past, The Geneva Project examines what is hidden and what is revealed, by bringing light to that which was once buried.

Searching the Farm Security Administration archives of the Library of Congress, dancer/choreographer Jennifer Harrison Newman discovered photographs of her great-aunt, Geneva Varner Clark, and her family on their farm in Depression-era South Carolina. Described as “negro”, “mixed race” and “Indian”, the photographs, taken by New Deal era photographer Marion Post Wolcott, invite inquiry into the politics of subjectivity and personhood by giving face to people marginalized by racial classifications.