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 strains on Black women's physical and mental health as well as concomitant expectations of performance-questions the group engages through their own model of care and liberation. In a snapshot of this continuing, generative process, AFROFEMONONOMY will join in a global reverberation this spring of Kathleen Collins' texts in responsive visions-with performance, music, film, radio-across New York City and in Oakland, California, with works made in Norway and Senegal, and online.