what about before? (2024)
Choreographer: uwazi in collaboration with performers
Performers: Elizabeth Abel, Jennesa Elise Lincke, Kylie Rinaldi, Noah Sylvia, Daniil Zakirzyanov, Jose L. Torres, Anna Scattoni, deziah neasia
Music: live sound score performed by uwazi (samples include Naplafa by Signal, Devil’s Pie by D’Angelo, Get Ready by Ann Nesby, KangDing Ray)
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.