The abridged creation myth of the San religion so goes that Pishiboro was bitten by a puff adder and died. When he died the world was created and his hair became the clouds that would create the life giving source of rain. Pishiboro resurrected himself and created human kind, and upon observing humanity realized they were incomplete. Thus he gave them hair to complete his creation. Through the use of Afrofuturism, drag, sound exploration, visual media and spacial installation, we will explore how we can collectively create a portal to guide us into transformative action by examining the great link of identity, power and opulence: Black People’s Hair.

GodXXX Noirphiles (Adrian Marie Blount)- Parent to Chance Aijuka/ Non Binary Femme Boi/Founder/Organizer/ Curator/DJ- Is based in Berlin by way of San Diego, CA. After attending San Francisco State to obtain their BA in theatre, they performed in New York, traveled across the country with a touring theatre troupe, then moved to Rhode Island to perform with various Brown University programs including the Center for Slavery and Justice, Brown/ Trinity and Trinity Repertory theatre. Since being in Berlin, Adrian has taught anti-racist and collective healing workshops with various organizations such as Dice Festival and Conference and AfriVenir, dj’d internationally, performed at München Kammerspiele, Volksbühne, Gorki, Sophiensaele, Ballhaus Naunynstrasse and English Theatre Berlin (and others) and is the founder and lead organizer of the drag collective House of Living Colors for exclusively queer and trans BIPoC.

Emerging Change
How far did your work go? Who did it reach? This is an embodied love letter to adrienne maree brown, the author of Emergent Strategies. Dance as an affirmation; Emerging Change is a dance event teaser curated by Makisig Akin and Nara Virgens which delves into the deep core of our fantasies, dreams and vulnerable truths that we embrace as secrets. A silent dream. The event reveals in the limelight the urgency of the curiosity that arises in us when we feel inspired. The choreographers respond with questions; How is dance connected to love, grief and joy. Is the body a home of your emotions? What does our communal body of emotion look like? Emerging Change will be presented at Tanzfabrik in Uferstudios, Berlin, Germany on the 23th of February 2022 as part of Open Spaces including the work of two queer BiPOC Berlin local choreographers as activists, performers and facilitators.

[Source: tanzfabrik-berlin.de]

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