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.
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.
