Time Machine is a one-hour, multi-generational performance by Rashaad Hasani Pearson and his daughters, Ayanna Mahal and Malaya Iman, exploring Black American Freestyle Dance as a living archive of memory, rhythm, and resilience. Rooted in family and lineage, the work blends Hip Hop, Popping, Locking, Strutting, Stepping, vocals, and storytelling to move fluidly across past, present, and future.

More than choreography, Time Machine is ritual and reclamation—transforming everyday family moments, ancestral memory, and Afro-Futurist imagination into a communal offering. At its core is the belief that rhythm itself is the time machine: inherited, embodied, and alive. This work is a love letter to Black creativity, intergenerational connection, and the power of movement as memory and becoming.