MANCC Welcomes Visiting Artist Okwui Okpokwasili
Event Details
July 1- July 29, 2016
The Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) proudly presents Visiting artist, Okwui Okpokwasili. This Bessie Award-winning artist uses an interdisciplinary, intensely visual and textured lens to look at issues of gender, culture, and identity as they are expressed in American and global contexts. Poor People’s TV Room is rooted in a kinetic history of collective action in Nigeria, drawing from historical events in order to explore the amnesia around collective action initiated by African women and to build a narrative around the impact of that erasure. Integrating choreography, song, text, and film, Poor People’s TV Room crosses disciplines to make a visceral performance where the past is alive and unleashed in the present.