one hundred black women, one hundred actions
Posted on | October 29, 2009 | No Comments
We invite you to submit an action, gesture, movement to be included in this new performance work:
one hundred black women, one hundred actions is a performance of critical actions, gestures and movements by one hundred black women from around the world to be documented then performed by one hundred black women in various public and private sites.
Through physical actions which are recorded here: http://onehundredactions.wordpress.com/ in various forms as photographs, drawings, video and written descriptions, the public can respond to the following question: “What is a gesture of personal power, an extreme action that is necessary in your daily life?” From these actions, we will choreograph 100 movements to be taught to and then performed live by 100 black women at our first site, TBA. It is our desire to invoke our collective strength through a work which specifically aims to locate the presence of black female bodies as central, political, powerful forces in the world.
Participants will discover and embody those critical movements and daily actions that describe their own mechanisms for survival, living, and imagining a future. These actions, which could be daily actions, repeated gestures, movements invented, or invoked, allow us to be present in our bodies. The project performs movements across borders and geographies to envision a cumulative, collective action translated into a site specific performance that has the weight and critical mass of one hundred black women to invoke shared power. This project also recognizes the power of embodying another’s voice, physical language, experiences across diverse geographies.
one hundred black women, one hundred actions is created and organized by Wura-Natasha Ogunji <http://wuraogunji.com/> and Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud <http://archipelaga.com/> .
HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
To participate in one hundred black women, one hundred actions send documentation of a critical action, gesture or movement, which answers the following question: “What is a gesture of personal power, an extreme action that is necessary in your daily life?”
Your physical action can be recorded as a photograph, drawing, video or written description. You can send this to us via email at: onehundredactions@gmail.com, or via skype or personal conversations. Be sure to send the name of your action, your location, and website.
Once we have collected 100 actions we will begin choreographing, teaching and performing these actions live in various locations.
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