Nude Me/Under the Skin: Unbinding a Path to Black Women's Healing, 2020
In this site-specific commissioned performance at Two Temple Place, London, the performance is an ode to the female form, its fluidity, its power and its softness, but was given particular contemporary relevance as it was developed in response to both the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.
Performed live as part of London Craft Week in September 2020, it revolved around a pyramid frame - the triangle, the symbol that represents the union of mind, body and soul and that when inverted also symbolises femininity. The core of the piece centred on winding and weaving tight lengths to the frame, starting from its base (the top of the inverted triangle) and working up towards its apex (the place of ascension and awakening). As the vibrations of music and movement reverberate through the tight lengths, regeneration is elicited. In return, the tights absorb all the pain and anxiety held in the body, transferring it to the frame and out through its root into the earth.
The performance was accompanied by cellist Sya Sanon playing a composition combining music from the song, Woezor by contemporary Ewe (Ghana) artist Worlasi with Bach’s CelloSuite II.