A culmination of 4 years of research, T. Lang’s Post Up series guides us through the horrors of separation and the aftermath of reunification. Lang began creating the first installment of the series after reading author Heather Andrea Williams, Help Me Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery. This book reveals seldom told American truths of newly freed citizens, using the technology of their day — a newspaper advertisement, to cleverly find their family members. Post Up premiered at The Goat Farm Arts Center in 2014. The second installment, Post Up in the House, presented at the High Museum’s Mi Casa Your Casa installation, sheds insight on intimate prayer– spells one would conjure to remain steadfast in their search. LIT Variations #1-11, the third installment, follows a trail of performances throughout the city of Atlanta signifying the somber joy of reconnection. In Post, visions of lost souls fight for peace after years of searching, praying to be reunited with stolen loved ones. Bodies yearn to recover from vicious exploitation, from unbearable separation, and unjustified pain. T. Lang Dance unpacks movement patterns, exploring how systemic mistreatments have been woven into the fiber of ones being. The series has incorporated works by various visual artists and systems engineers, developing digitally interactive experiences which offer our dancers an improvisation platform within an immersive virtual environment. Sourcing from an eclectic background, our sound design collaborators have created unique musical blends that flood out of speakers in an evocative array of frequencies. The Post Up four-part series is revealed in the following iterations: Post Up – Following multi-generational, uncensored conversations on love and personal diary entries that beg for the return of a deceased loved one, this work ignites the search for love lost. Premiered at The Goat Farm Arts Center in 2014. Post Up in the House – First presented by the High Museum of Art in 2014, PUITH was performed as a visual installation within contemporary designers Héctor Esrawe and Ignacio Cadena’s Mi Casa, Your Casa exhibition. This work explored narrative reality, the delicate balance of sanity, and the private unseen prayers of searching hearts. LIT Variations #1 – #10 – LIT Variations is a migration work that performed in 10 variations throughout the city of Atlanta in 2015. Each variation was reconfigured in staging, music scores and intentionality within choreography. This work investigated the trails and obstacles one takes to rediscover what once was. Post – Set inside a reconfigured chapel, Post imagines a new space and time, an environment that stirs memories and agitates the spirit. After searching what feels like the entire solar system, Post returns you back to your loved ones, only to reveal unresolved trauma, question the unfamiliar, and sit with the pain that unfolds in the aftermath. The 55 min work ran March 9-25th 2017 at an abandoned church on the decommissioned Atlanta military base, Fort McPherson.