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We will approach the wind through sound, film, literature, and music, and talk to it through dreaming practice with contributions by Wren Cellier, Florian Dombois, Sher Doruff, Giulia Essyad, Zainabu Jallo, Philipp Modersohn, Isabel Nolan, Lucas Odahara, Christoph Oeschger, Belinda Quirke, Helene Romakin, U5, Vivian Wang.
Meet three playwrights from the African Diaspora, who make their narratives out of an Afro-Atlantic point of view.
Storytellers and Griots creating intricate, expansive narratives where Black Lives don’t simply matter but are essential.
PLAYCO RESIDENCY – BLACK WOMEN THEATRE MAKERS
PlayCo is proud to announce the public presentations for our 2021 Residency for Black Women Theatre Makers, a four-month period of process-oriented creative support provided to artists from around the world.
Join Daaimah, Katlego, Zainabu, and Dione for a spirited and multifaceted discussion on process, collaboration, and the culmination of their PlayCo residency.
“Daaimah, Dione, Katlego, and Zainabu are accomplished artists whose varied perspectives, backgrounds, and creative energies we are thrilled to bring together, especially as they all live in different countries,” …
Zainabu Jallo’s academic and creative work has been created through fellowships at the Sundance Theater Institute, the Institute for World Literature, Harvard University, the Mellon School of Theater and Performance at Harvard (Migrations session), Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin, ResidenzTheater Munich, Château de Lavigny, House of Writers in Switzerland.
At his home and studio in Lagos, Nigeria, actor Segun Adefila deals with the ordinary and extraordinary in Zainabu Jallo’s “Bariga Spirit.” Deep into a hot night, he welcomes observers into the home/studio he shares with his wife and four children, one of whom sleeps soundly on the floor of the room where Adefila is holding forth.