"Adaptations II" is a personal piece that explores navigating the artist space as a BIPOC individual. What started out as a piece that portrayed dance artist “Shenel Williams” time and experience in the York University Dance Program; conveyed through dance. Has shifted and transformed into an expression of the whirlwind of emotions that comes with navigating the artist's space as a BIPOC individual.

Through each of the performance's sections, we hope to bring the audience through the phases of joy, complacency, inauthenticity, triumph, suppression and defeat. As it begins an individual journey, it quickly becomes a story about a shared experience and pressing into the importance of finding one's tribe.

ADAPTATIONS 2 is set to premiere as part of the Two Fold Residency Exhibition in January 2025, entitled Growing pains.