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Since inception in 2014, KMC has performed at venues including the BAM Next Wave Festival, Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out, Actors Fund Arts Center, NJPAC, Little Island, and Roulette. “Alice” is a solo work about the spiritual journey to self-acceptance, dedicated to those on the verge of transformation, guided by the music of jazz great Alice Coltrane, and inspired by KMC’s Tastic“Onyx” delves into the origins of rock and roll, revealing the Black and brown people whose sounds, performances, and personalities created the revolutionary genre.
For his part, Tastic said his visual esthetic is “deeply rooted in research and an appreciation for abstract story-telling.” He described some of the details in “Onyx” as being like those that symbolize the essence of music legend Tina Turner’s iconic fight for artistic agency and emancipation by deploying an imaginative use of make-up and props that are “rooted in the research of the persona and trying to reach a new layer for the audience to see.