A Co-Presentation with Plastic Orchid Factory

March 1-2, 2024

Left of Main (Historic Chinatown, MST Territories/Vancouver)

Created by Aisha Sasha John

In the 1978 film The Wiz, Diana Ross plays Dorothy to Michael Jackson’s Scarecrow. For these new friends—along with the others they meet along the way—getting what they need is facilitated by these chance fellowships that reveal themselves as vital. In DIANA ROSS DREAM, Black being-together is sanctuary. Our togetherness, precious and fortifying, creates the condition for the total expression characterizing the aliveness to which we’ve been called.

Aisha Sasha John [Tkaronto]: “Montreal, summer 2015: I fell asleep to a question and was answered in the form of a dream: Diana Ross on Broadway in a sea of rose gold costumed dancers—a dream of spiritedness and belonging so vivid as to announce itself as instruction, as a call.”