Okwui Okpokwasili: Poor People's TV Room

Okwui Okpokwasili: Poor People's TV Room

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REDCAT

 

Thursday, Feb. 8 - 8:30 pm
Friday, Feb. 9 - 8:30 pm
Saturday, Feb. 10 - 8:30 pm
Sunday, Feb. 11 - 7 pm


“Okpokwasili is quite simply a virtuoso, an exquisite singer, speaker, writer, mover, a siren who draws us to danger.”

—Chicago Tribune

Los Angeles Premiere

In association with CAP UCLA

Known for her intensely powerful performances, Bessie Award–winning Okwui Okpokwasili (featured at REDCAT in Ralph Lemon’s How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere) considers the collective amnesia around the Nigerian women’s resistance movements of the past century. With collaborator Peter Born, she mixes ritualistic and hallucinogenic movement, song, video, and text, creating a dystopian narrative in which characters slip through the fissures of time to wander in a bush of ghosts.

The presentation of Poor People’s TV Room was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 

Additional funds were provided by The Surdna Foundation in support of CAP UCLA’s CODA21 initiative.