Carl Hancock Rux’s Études, created in collaboration with choreographer Stephanie Batten Bland and multidisciplinary installation artist Dianne Smith, is an interdisciplinary performance work that brings poetic text, movement, music, and visual composition into a series of theatrical studies. Moving between abstraction and narrative, the work examines the Black body as both a living archive and a contested site—bearing the traces of history, memory, violence, desire, and cultural inheritance. Rather than unfolding through a conventional dramatic structure, Études accumulates meaning through gesture, rhythm, language, and image, creating a performance landscape in which the personal and historical continually converge.