litany of a
black mouth (2025)
Choreography by uwazi zamani in collaboration with dancers
Dancers: Adrianna Inez Oliver, Angeliese Ribbe, Carla Saunders, Dani McVean, Emily Yuri Shin, Endia Morgan Banks, MaKiya LeAnn Carter, Tanysia Rivera, Xiomara Jeanette Alfinez and Zaria Louis Charles, performers
Music: Live soundscore performed by uwazi.
Samples include: Angela Olivia Guillory, Rudy Barnes, St. Germaine, and Shirley Caesar.
Program Notes:
A dance for what we’ve inherited, where the body remembers, grieves, confronts, and begins to break the lineage of harm.
Lighting design: Dani Sala
what about before? (2024)
Choreographer: uwazi in collaboration with performers
Performers: Elizabeth Abel, Jennesa Elise Lincke, Kylie Rinaldi, Noah Sylvia, Daniil Zakirzyanov, Jose L. Torres, Anna Scattoni, deziah neasia
Music: live sound score performed by uwazi (samples include Naplafa by Signal, Devil’s Pie by D’Angelo, Get Ready by Ann Nesby, KangDing Ray)
for the boys I carried in my mouth…
(work in progress)
Music: live sound design performed by Uwazi (artist include Billie Holdiay, Cleo Kennedy, Raime, Nas, and Mystikal)
Dancers: Cameron Childs and Robert Gregory Burden, Jr.
hush: a tableau for living in the long shadow of the past when the present is an excess of fiction and silence. (2023)
Choreography: Uwazi in collaboration with performers.
Rehearsal Director or Assistant(s): Arabia Richardson and Kahly McCurdy
Performers: Ariana Gonzalez, Brooke Brookshire, Cecile Abreu, Earlisia Schumaker, Ina kwayana, Jailah Johnson, Janee Bell, Kayla Robertini, Micah Robinson, Nailah Morsell, Nyah Brown, Olivia Eaton, Ravyn Hutton, Symaya Miller
Music: live sound design performed by Uwazi (artists include The Staple Singers, San Diego Slam Poetry, Jeanne Lee, and Dennis Ferrer)
Other relevant credits: Hush Somebody’s Calling my Name is sung by Zachary Bright.
Notes: What does it mean to harbor sounds of Black life in an insistent hush?