Miss/Mr. Contented Least

First performance: 1 hour 30 mins

Second performance: 45 minutes

Third performance: 35 minutes

Performer: Da Ron Vinson

Photo documentation: Phoenix Moon, Da Ron Vinson

Video documentation: Edson Reyes

Video documentation: Antonio Bouyard

Live Composer: Cody Algos aka Algorythm.Code

Choreographer: Jax Neal

Premiered, August 2025 in Los Angeles, California

Surgery was performed three separate times. Once for an audience and twice solitary. The audience is drawn into the work as active participants celebrating, washing, and lifting alongside the artist transforming the act of witnessing into one of shared responsibility and care. The performance engages pathologization and spectacle of the Black body and reclaiming surgery as a communal, public ritual.

By weaving together dance, call and response, and religious abstraction, the artist constructs a space where identity is not fixed but continually remade through dialogue, resistance, and self-invention. Miss/Mr. Contented Least is an invitation to confront the boundaries between harm and healing, autonomy and interdependence, and to reimagine self determination in a world that too often denies it to Black people.