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Bronx Gothic Abstract presents ; written and performed by Okwui Okpokwasili ; a film by Andrew Rossi ; directed and produced by Andrew Rossi ; produced by Okwui Okpokwasili.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Okpokwasili, Okwui, 1972-.
- Okpokwasili, Okwui.
- Bronx gothic (Choreographic work : Okpokwasili).
- African American women--Race identity.
- African American women.
- Art--Political aspects.
- Art.
- Choreographers--Interviews. .
- Choreographers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (91 min.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. Grasshopper Film 2017
- Summary:
- A portrait of writer and performer Okwui Okpokwasili as she stages a final tour for her one-woman show., "Bronx Gothic." Rooted in memories of her childhood, Okwui - who's worked with conceptual artists like Ralph Lemon and Julie Taymor - fuses dance, song, drama, and comedy to create a mesmerizing space in which audiences can engage with a story about two 12-year-old black girls coming of age in the 1980s. She says in the film that all "black and brown bodies" have been inscribed with a history of violence in our culture, and that she hopes that "Bronx Gothic" will allow audience members to grow their empathic capacity while seeing her in a radical dance that presents the brown body from a new perspective. We follow Okwui as she tours "Bronx Gothic" around the country and conducts talkbacks with her audience. During these sessions, she interrogates both the formal elements of her show (e.g. durational performance, fragmented storytelling) and the political ramifications of her characters' actions and environment. This leads members of her audience to share emotional stories from their own lives, during some of the talk-backs.
- Participant:
- Okwui Okpokwasili, Ralph Lemon.
- Credits:
- Editor, Andrew Coffman ; co-editors, Thomas Rivera Montes, Andrew Rossi ; cinematographers, Bryan Sarkinen, Andrew Rossi ; additional cinematographer, Erik Ljung ; original score, Ian Hultquist.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title screen
- OCLC:
- 1101668171
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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