Choreographer

adaku, part 1: the road opens finds Okpokwasili and Born stepping into a new stage of their shared practice, crafting a thrumming, richly textured sonic and visual landscape. In this inaugural chapter of a larger speculative mythology, a precolonial African village stands at the cusp of a major upheaval as its community wrestles with a conflict that could alter the futures of all of its members.

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Adaku, part 1: the road opens

BAM Fisher

Okwui Okpokwasili’s new theater piece centers around a young African American girl who loses all of her hair after using a chemical straightener, only to have it restored by the power of a mysterious, unhoused woman. The young girl’s hair comes back with properties that restore genetic and cultural memory and allow her to discover her family’s precolonial past. A work that centers around the complexity of repair, physical and psychic, that will require traveling to the past and into the future.

Okwui Okpokwasili

Choreographer

Events

Dec 2, 2023

Adaku, part 1: the road opens · Brooklyn Academy of Music

25 - 27 May, 2023

Okwui Okpokwasili · REDCAT (Roy & Edna Disney /CalArts Theater)

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