Photo by Kathryn Butler
Works in progress sharing at CPR (Center for Performance Research).
"Drexciya: mixed media experience & mythical resistance story of an underwater country populated by African women who jumped to their liberation and adapted to breathe underwater during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. It explores Black and indigenous communities relationship to water in the height of an international water crisis."
Created by Aya Lane Devised with: Ziiomi Law, Nana Chinara, Monique Muse Dodd
Genesis
A performance piece utilizing the body, sound and spoken word to imagine a new multiverse in the rubbles of the old. Drawing from Audre Lorde's Uses of the Erotic, Genesis with sensual power reckons with the divine feminine transforming all that it touches.
Co-conspirators: Monique Muse Dodd, Aya Lane and Nana Chinara
Photo courtesy of Kalyn Jacobs