Up and Through is dedicated to Jeffrey McLamb.

From Eric: 

Jeffrey and I became friends at the Alvin Ailey school back in 1987 years before joining the Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company together. Jeffrey took me to the piers at the end of Christopher Street in NYC and would recall his adventures at the Balls in Harlem to me. He begged me to go with him. I always declined out of fear of not being at my best for Graham, Horton, or Ballet class in the morning. I regret not going with him. Jeffrey would often use “up and through” to describe ways of being deeply in or into something, immersed, saturated. He even used it once to describe a Chick-Fil-A chicken sandwich when we were on tour, “look at that sauce all up and through.” Jeffrey died of AIDS in 1993.

Sources

Ishmael Houston Jones & Nina Martin

José Esteban Muñoz

Jeffrey McLamb

Joanna Kotze

Jeanine Durning

Trisha Brown

Diego Vega

Valentino

JW Anderson

Labour and Wait

“Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality. We have never been queer, yet queerness exists for us as an ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future. The future is queerness’s domain."

—José Esteban Muñoz in Crusing Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity