OBEAH (A BLACK RITUAL)

Description of Project:

Directed by Jonathan González
Featuring Katrina Reid and Rena Anakwe

'Obeah (A Black Ritual)' is an alchemical choreography contemplating grief in the sensorium of a social gathering. The unnamed potential of depth is met with the elusiveness of deep water as sound artist Rena Anakwe and performing artist Katrina Reid propose a collective descent into the undercurrents with an insistence on superstition. Their dialogical improvisation composes an ever-expanding blackened surround, which submerges its witnesses in the dynamism of the wave—a habitat of specters and impressions—as it calls for togetherness with ardent yet detestable desire.

Performance:

• Premiered at 'Submerge 2017: Break Time,' at MINKA brooklyn
  Curated by Ali Rosa-Salas
  Presented by BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange and The Helix Queer Performance Network on November 3rd & November 4th, 2017

• Part of 'LaMaMa Moves! Dance Festival 2018' at The Downstairs
  Curated by Nicky Paraiso
  Assistant Curator of La MaMa Moves: Gian Marco Lo Forte
  Presented on May 19th & May 20th, 2018

Links: [press]

• The New York Times [review]

• CULTUREBOT

• The New York Times

• The New Yorker

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