Distract Me from the Mirror (2024)

choreographed and performed by: uwazi in collaboration with Trent D. Williams

Music: sound design by uwazi (artists include Saul Williams, excerpts from an interview with Angela Davis, Ann Nesby, Jacob Banks, and WILLS)

Note: the work features the poem Talk to Strangers by Saul Williams (recited and recorded by uwazi)

a hymn/him in hiding

(work in progress)

Music: live sound design performed by Uwazi (artist include Billie Holdiay, Cleo Kennedy, Raime, Nas, and Mystikal)

Dancers: Cameron Childs and Robert Gregory Burden, Jr.

hush: a tableau for living in the long shadow of the past when the present is an excess of fiction and silence. (2023)

Choreography: Uwazi in collaboration with performers.

Rehearsal Director or Assistant(s): Arabia Richardson and Kahly McCurdy

Performers: Ariana Gonzalez, Brooke Brookshire, Cecile Abreu, Earlisia Schumaker, Ina kwayana, Jailah Johnson, Janee Bell, Kayla Robertini, Micah Robinson, Nailah Morsell, Nyah Brown, Olivia Eaton, Ravyn Hutton, Symaya Miller

Music: live sound design performed by Uwazi (artists include The Staple Singers, San Diego Slam Poetry, Jeanne Lee, and Dennis Ferrer)

Other relevant credits: Hush Somebody’s Calling my Name is sung by Zachary Bright. 

Notes: What does it mean to harbor sounds of Black life in an insistent hush? 

killing boogeyman (2020)

choreographed and performed by: Uwazi

Music: Scatman Carouthers; Ekkehard Ehlers; Moses Sumney

note: this work was made possible by the Union Arts Festival Residency for Theater and Dance.