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Details Announced for AFROFEMONONOMY // WORK THE ROOTS Presented by Performance Space New York
Programming features “Last night, I dreamt I danced in the image of God.”, The Essentialisn t: Gold Taste,by BWW News Desk
Performance Space New York, with co-production partner New Georges has announced details surrounding AFROFEMONONOMY // WORK THE ROOTS, a group activation of Black femme theater artists in celebration of each other. Since March 2021, collaborators within AFROFEMONONOMY-including Lileana Blain-Cruz, Charlotte Brathwaite, Eisa Davis, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Deadria Harrington, Ayesha Jordan, Joie Lee, April Matthis, Jennifer Harrison Newman, Okwui Okpokwasili, Stacey Karen Robinson, and Kaneza Schaal-have been meeting in informal in-person and remote gatherings to explore Kathleen Collins 1984 quartet of unproduced one-acts Begin the Beguine and Eisa Davis musical performance work The Essentialisn t. Resonating throughout both works are questions of societal strain
Performance Space New York, with co-production partner New Georges, announces details surrounding AFROFEMONONOMY // WORK THE ROOTS, a group activation of Black femme theater artists in celebration of each other.
New Georges Announces Upcoming Spring 2021 Programming
Programming will feature Dream/Home, All the Different Ways Commodore Matthew Perry Could Have Died Before Opening Japan But Didn’t & more.by BWW News Desk
New Georges announced today two upcoming productions for the Spring 2021 season-Dream/Home, presented as part of Post Theatrical; and All the Different Ways Commodore Matthew Perry Could Have Died Before Opening Japan But Didn t, a new play commissioned from Julia Izumi, presented in a co-production with Theater in Quarantine. In addition, New Georges is a co-producing partner on Afrofemenonomy / Work the Roots, in residence at Performance Space New York through June 2021.
Lileana Blain-Cruz, Eisa Davis, and Jackie Sibblies Drury
A group of Black, femme theatremakers have banded together to form a new exploratory theatre collaboration called Afrofemononomy, which will present a series of digital and in-person events exploring explore Black women, art, health, and balance. The founders include Lileana Blain-Cruz, Eisa Davis, Charlotte Brathwaite, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Ayesha Jordan, Joie Lee, April Matthis, Jennifer Harrison Newman, Okwui Okpokwasili, Stacey Karen Robinson, and Kaneza Schaal.
The groupâs first residency, titled Work the Roots, begins March 1 at Performance Space New York to illuminate texts by Kathleen Collins and Adrienne Kennedy. Throughout, Afrofemononomy plans to broadcast their investigations via a dedicated web-based radio station.