Date: Nov. 21, 2025
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Venable Theatre
A duet confronting the violent fallout of male insecurity and entitlement. Commercial images promise status, offer solutions to inadequacy, and breed entitlement. Internalized deficiency has created a culture of resentment.
A Dance Film response to D.W. Griffith's 1915 silent film The Birth of a Nation, based on Thomas Dixon's novel The Clansman. Griffith’s film is an assertion of White supremacy, and a veneration of the KKK. It’s a call to arms against the changing social/racial structure of America. Our film confronts the myth of Griffith’s “helpless white minority,” and the cult of white-victimhood’s enduring impact on American polity. Second Seed is our collision with this American artifact.
