PHENOMENAL BLACK WOMXN... a conversation
February 20, 2021
To complete a full day of facilitated workshops, presentations and shared experiences that are designed to inspire personal responses from participants, we will culminate in a panel of phenomenal Black Womxn.
- Participants/Witnesses are asked to respond in writing and submit them.
- Submissions will be crafted into a ritual play for community by community.
This process is based in a devised work methodology: Ritual Poetic Drama within the African Continuum (RPDWAC). RPDWAC is both a training methodology for actors as well as a method for, collaborative and individual, creation and expression of artistic content.
Ritual refers to facilitated experiences designed to foster participants entrance into an altered state of consciousness which manifests the Poetic which we define as "The imagery and the music of the story. The poetic uses the infinite power of WORD imagery through rhythm, rhyme and poetry of language with its multiple meanings and messages. It must be spoken with passion and with power” which we present as the Drama which as we use the word is “The essence of the story and it is the story itself. What we are looking for is revelation.” This methodology is rooted in The African Continuum grown on principles of communal and collaborative practices of the primary, first, original, source of human life and thereby of art.
It is in this methodology that the play Dispersed: Womxn of the Diaspora (working title) will be a collaboratively created work. Self-Identified Black Womxn come together virtually to experience each other, inform each other, share with one another to explore and celebrate the diversity of Black Womxn.
