Sun October 30, 2022
Sage Ni’Ja Whitson | The NWA Project: A Meditation on Tongues
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SAGE NI'JA WHITSON | The NWA Project
A Meditation on Tongues (Bay Area premiere)
October 28 - 30, Friday - Sunday
The first artist in ODC Theater's Fall Season is Sage Ni'Ja Whitson (they/them), formerly Ni'Ja Whitson, a trans, nonbinary writer, choreographer and performer, and two-time Bessie Award winner. Dubbed "majestic" by The New York Times, they engage transdisciplinarity through critical exploration of the sacred and conceptual in Black, queer transembodiedness.
A Meditation on Tongues, an adaptation of Marlon T. Riggs' iconic documentary Tongues Untied, premiered to critical acclaim at the American Realness Festival in New York in 2017. The work frames new questions about loss at the height of the AIDS pandemic, while challenging constructions of Black and queer masculinities.
"The Bay Area was the stomping grounds and chosen soil where Marlon Riggs dedicated his art, activism and collectivizing," said Whitson. "It will be an honor to perform this work where he fiercely lived, and to celebrate the work/werk of his legendary film Tongues Untied and its legendary impact on several Black queer generations."
In their Bay Area debut, Whitson will be joined on stage by performers Kirsten Davis and SoHo Labeija. Kevin E. Myrick will serve as lighting supervisor and Morgan Johnson as stage manager.
A Meditation on Tongues is a live interdisciplinary adaptation of Marlon T. Riggs' iconic Tongues Untied (1989). Part abstract, part performance ritual, part live and historical document, this rigorously layered interdisciplinary project (re)images Black and Queer masculinities. It struts. It snaps. It frames new questions about loss at the height of the AIDS pandemic, while challenging constructions of Black love of/as revolution. A bold deconstruction of Riggs' collectivist aesthetics and a raw invocation that shape shifts gender, sexuality, and the body, A Meditation on Tongues, remixes historic and embodied invisibilities, spilling between the spaces of mourning and celebration.
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A Meditation on Tongues (Bay Area premiere)
October 28 - 30, Friday - Sunday
The first artist in ODC Theater's Fall Season is Sage Ni'Ja Whitson (they/them), formerly Ni'Ja Whitson, a trans, nonbinary writer, choreographer and performer, and two-time Bessie Award winner. Dubbed "majestic" by The New York Times, they engage transdisciplinarity through critical exploration of the sacred and conceptual in Black, queer transembodiedness.
A Meditation on Tongues, an adaptation of Marlon T. Riggs' iconic documentary Tongues Untied, premiered to critical acclaim at the American Realness Festival in New York in 2017. The work frames new questions about loss at the height of the AIDS pandemic, while challenging constructions of Black and queer masculinities.
"The Bay Area was the stomping grounds and chosen soil where Marlon Riggs dedicated his art, activism and collectivizing," said Whitson. "It will be an honor to perform this work where he fiercely lived, and to celebrate the work/werk of his legendary film Tongues Untied and its legendary impact on several Black queer generations."
In their Bay Area debut, Whitson will be joined on stage by performers Kirsten Davis and SoHo Labeija. Kevin E. Myrick will serve as lighting supervisor and Morgan Johnson as stage manager.
A Meditation on Tongues is a live interdisciplinary adaptation of Marlon T. Riggs' iconic Tongues Untied (1989). Part abstract, part performance ritual, part live and historical document, this rigorously layered interdisciplinary project (re)images Black and Queer masculinities. It struts. It snaps. It frames new questions about loss at the height of the AIDS pandemic, while challenging constructions of Black love of/as revolution. A bold deconstruction of Riggs' collectivist aesthetics and a raw invocation that shape shifts gender, sexuality, and the body, A Meditation on Tongues, remixes historic and embodied invisibilities, spilling between the spaces of mourning and celebration.
SAGE NI'JA WHITSON | The NWA Project
A Meditation on Tongues (Bay Area premiere)
October 28 - 30, Friday - Sunday
The first artist in ODC Theater's Fall Season is Sage Ni'Ja Whitson (they/them), formerly Ni'Ja Whitson, a trans, nonbinary writer, choreographer and performer, and two-time Bessie Award winner. Dubbed "majestic" by The New York Times, they engage transdisciplinarity through critical exploration of the sacred and conceptual in Black, queer transembodiedness.
A Meditation on Tongues, an adaptation of Marlon T. Riggs' iconic documentary Tongues Untied, premiered to critical acclaim at the American Realness Festival in New York in 2017. The work frames new questions about loss at the height of the AIDS pandemic, while challenging constructions of Black and queer masculinities.
"The Bay Area was the stomping grounds and chosen soil where Marlon Riggs dedicated his art, activism and collectivizing," said Whitson. "It will be an honor to perform this work where he fiercely lived, and to celebrate the work/werk of his legendary film Tongues Untied and its legendary impact on several Black queer generations."
In their Bay Area debut, Whitson will be joined on stage by performers Kirsten Davis and SoHo Labeija. Kevin E. Myrick will serve as lighting supervisor and Morgan Johnson as stage manager.
A Meditation on Tongues is a live interdisciplinary adaptation of Marlon T. Riggs' iconic Tongues Untied (1989). Part abstract, part performance ritual, part live and historical document, this rigorously layered interdisciplinary project (re)images Black and Queer masculinities. It struts. It snaps. It frames new questions about loss at the height of the AIDS pandemic, while challenging constructions of Black love of/as revolution. A bold deconstruction of Riggs' collectivist aesthetics and a raw invocation that shape shifts gender, sexuality, and the body, A Meditation on Tongues, remixes historic and embodied invisibilities, spilling between the spaces of mourning and celebration.
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A Meditation on Tongues (Bay Area premiere)
October 28 - 30, Friday - Sunday
The first artist in ODC Theater's Fall Season is Sage Ni'Ja Whitson (they/them), formerly Ni'Ja Whitson, a trans, nonbinary writer, choreographer and performer, and two-time Bessie Award winner. Dubbed "majestic" by The New York Times, they engage transdisciplinarity through critical exploration of the sacred and conceptual in Black, queer transembodiedness.
A Meditation on Tongues, an adaptation of Marlon T. Riggs' iconic documentary Tongues Untied, premiered to critical acclaim at the American Realness Festival in New York in 2017. The work frames new questions about loss at the height of the AIDS pandemic, while challenging constructions of Black and queer masculinities.
"The Bay Area was the stomping grounds and chosen soil where Marlon Riggs dedicated his art, activism and collectivizing," said Whitson. "It will be an honor to perform this work where he fiercely lived, and to celebrate the work/werk of his legendary film Tongues Untied and its legendary impact on several Black queer generations."
In their Bay Area debut, Whitson will be joined on stage by performers Kirsten Davis and SoHo Labeija. Kevin E. Myrick will serve as lighting supervisor and Morgan Johnson as stage manager.
A Meditation on Tongues is a live interdisciplinary adaptation of Marlon T. Riggs' iconic Tongues Untied (1989). Part abstract, part performance ritual, part live and historical document, this rigorously layered interdisciplinary project (re)images Black and Queer masculinities. It struts. It snaps. It frames new questions about loss at the height of the AIDS pandemic, while challenging constructions of Black love of/as revolution. A bold deconstruction of Riggs' collectivist aesthetics and a raw invocation that shape shifts gender, sexuality, and the body, A Meditation on Tongues, remixes historic and embodied invisibilities, spilling between the spaces of mourning and celebration.
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