About this Event
Suchi Branfman is a choreographer / curator / performer / educator / activist, who has toured, performed, and worked in communities from the war zones of Managua to Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre and from Kampala’s Luzira Pr*son to NYC’s Joyce Theatre. Her work strives to create an embodied terrain grounded in storytelling, dialogue, listening and action.
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Najite Agindotan is a master percussionist from Lagos, Nigeria who for over 3 decades, has kept authentic afrobeat and African jazz alive and thriving in Los AngelesIn. In his youth he became a protege of Fela Kuti, learning the arts of traditional West African drum and dance in Fela's Kalakuta compound, and eventually taken as a godson by the late activist and afrobeat originator.
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Shonda Buchanan, author of Black Indian, will be presenting poems from a new body of work entitled 'Artificial Earth, Circa Los Angeles, 1771-1848.' These poems are a humble attempt to bring these narratives to life, yet until all the documents and oral histories are unearthed, merged and decolonized, the true story of Los Angeles and its inhabitants, indeed America, will remain untold.
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Jibz Cameron is a performer, visual artist and actor. Her multi-media performance work as alter ego Dynasty Handbag has been presented at New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Broad Museum, Hammer Museum, REDCAT and Centre Pompidou . She has been heralded by the New York Times as “the funniest and most pitch perfect performance seen in years” and “outrageously smart, grotesque and innovative” by the New Yorker.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Grand Performances, 350 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, United States
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