Parental guidance and content advisory: The performance of Losing My Religion contains strong language, vivid imagery, and mature themes, which makes it unsuitable for children ages ten and under.

Losing My Religion is a new creation by Rennie Harris and is a retrospective inspired by Harris’s life journey, the human experience, and today’s current political and socioeconomic theater. Losing My Religion is an abstract work inspired by his personal journey and thoughts on the world’s collective dilemmas. From war to social, economic, and political injustices, humanity is forever caught in a perpetual loop of turmoil, grief, and despair. Harris challenges both what has come to be expected of street dance and hip-hop culture and degenerative social normatives/beliefs with his reconstructionist philosophy and approach to artmaking. As a part of the company work, Harris will incorporate a reimagining of his renowned solo, Endangered Species. The solo's inclusion completes a story of systemic racism and revolt and a shift away from what was, to what is, and what can be. Losing My Religion examines languages of protest, resilience, and power, while the choreography and forms invite audiences to imagine the ways in which they can use their bodies as resistance.

This work is the result of a commission by the Hermitage Artist Retreat through their prestigious Greenfield Prize and reflects an ongoing collaboration with our two institutions to support creative practice in the region.