Set in a near-future United States, a young woman taught that she has no history worth remembering receives sudden transmissions. What are the multitude of futures she can now imagine? In adaku, part 2, sweat variant, the collaborative practice of Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, continues a speculative trilogy exploring one family’s entanglement with the transatlantic slave trade. Their multidisciplinary approach invites audiences into cycles of ritual and repair. Partners in life and art, these visionary artists place Black interiority at the center of their bold, immersive works at the crossroads of dance, theater, and visual art. Their latest creation extends a mythos introduced with adaku, part 1: the road opens at BAM during Next Wave 2023.