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OKWUI OKPOKWASILI AND PETER BORN — SITTING ON A MAN’S HEAD

SITTING ON A MAN’S HEAD—the durational, audience-participatory work by Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born—will be performed at Danspace Project throughout March, 2020, as part of the PLATFORM 2020—Utterances from the Chorus program.

A rotating cast of performers includes Martita Abril, Jennifer Brogle, mayfield brooks, Leslie CuyjetAndré DaughtryEisa Davis, Brittany Engel-Adams, Lily GoldNaja GordonMelanie Greene, Audrey HailesRemi Harris, Jasmine Hearn, Justin Hicks, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Chaesong Kim, Tendayi Kuumba, Breyanna MaplesPriscilla MarreroAnais MavielMaya OrchinKay Ottinger, jess pretty, Greg PurnellHans Rasch, Katrina Reid, Jean Carla RodeaLily Bo Shapiro, Samita SinhaEleanor Smith, Tatyana Tenenbaum, David Thomson, Pyeng Threadgill, Asiya WadudCharmaine Warren, AJ WilmoreAnna Witenberg, Nehemoyia Young, Okpokwasili, and Born.

OKWUI OKPOKWASILI and PETER BORN—SITTING ON A MAN’S HEAD

Friday, March 6, 13, and 20, from 6 pm to 10 pm.

Danspace Project

St. Mark’s Church

131 East 10th Street, New York City.

Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, Sitting On a Man’s Head, in performance, Berlin Biennale, 2018 (Okpokwasili top right and below center in black dress). Images courtesy and © the artists and participants.

OKWUI OKPOKWASILI AT REDCAT

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In a Los Angeles premiere, the great Okwui Okpokwasili brings her POOR PEOPLE’S TV ROOM to Redcat for a long weekend of performances.

Mixing music and video with “ritualistic and hallucinogenic movement,” Okpokwasili and collaborator Peter Born create a dystopian dreamscape, investigating the erasure of Nigerian women’s resistance movements by means of collective amnesia and apathy.

POOR PEOPLE’S TV ROOM is performed by actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, director Thuli Dumakude; performance artist and writer Katrina Reid; dancer, choreographer, educator, and activist Nehemoyia Young; and Okpokwasili.

This program is part of the Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series in association with CAP UCLA.

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OKWUI OKPOKWASILI—POOR PEOPLE’S TV ROOM, Thursday through Saturday, February 8 through 10, at 8:30 pm.  Sunday, February 11, at 7 pm.

REDCAT, Disney Hall, Music Center, downtown Los Angeles.

redcat.org/event/okwui-okpokwasili

Above: Okwui Okpokwasili.

Below: Katrina Reid (left) and Okwui Okpokwasili in Poor People’s TV Room. Photograph by Paul B. Goode. Image credit: New York Live Arts.

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