little sister: An Afro-Temporal Solo-Play.
little sister: An Afro-Temporal Solo-Play is at once a memory-scape and a mytho-biography set to poetry, movement, and mixed media. A performance poem spanning from the Antebellum South to present-moment Chicago, it tells the story of a nomadic spirit named little-she who shape-shifts through the memories and imaginings of her sister, the narrator. Through the characters little-she and the narrator, the solo-performance explores embodied ways to rupture and relieve the impact of macro forms of violence in the micro realm of the everyday. To this end, little sister witnesses and disrupts the legacy of violence in the lives of queer Black women through a trans-temporal navigation of everyday encounters within familial, small groups and intimate partner spaces.
a Department of Performance Studies , Northwestern University , Evanston , Illinois , USA.
Misty
M
De Berry
D001741:Black or African American; D001154:Art; D005260:Female; D018452:Homosexuality, Female; D006801:Humans; D014930:Women
Afro-Surrealism; Black feminist avant-garde; Black queer women; Time; affect; micro-violence; performance poetry; theatrical jazz aesthetic