Studio Somewhere Invites…
jumatatu m. poe
The Switching - movement workshop
23rd April 2022 / 1 - 4pm
Tramway Studio
Free
Email studio@takemesomewhere.co.uk to reserve a space.
Studio Somewhere is delighted to invite New York based choreographer jumatatu m. poe to Glasgow. They will be in residence connecting with local artists & cultural historians, exploring the concept of indigeneity in relation to Scottish land & Gaelic language culture.
Whilst they are here they will deliver their movement workshop The Switching.
This workshop is reserved for Black people and People of Colour (details below) who are interested in working on performance techniques through dance/movement. No previous dance experience is necessary.
Jumatatu on The Switching:
"“I like to imagine that this improvisation practice, The Switching, is a strategy in immediate evolution. I began to practice The Switching in relation to dealing with my curiosities around a question I obsessed over: “Can I change myself?”
Our practice will deal with strategic essentialism – through the immediate design of creatures, or ways of being – and working with immediately identifying restrictions/limitations.
For me, there is something deeply spiritual about the practice, something confusing, something humbling/humiliating about it. I feel like it has theoretical links to code switching, especially as it has to do with my Blackness and queerness, experiences of immediate compartmentalization/contextualization as a defense mechanism, as a means of survival.
Please join me! I encourage all bodies, all gender expressions.”
Further Info:
This event is only open to Black people and People of Colour (BPOC.) We understand that not everybody will use this term to describe themselves, please see further detail below:
Please only attend this event if you are a person who is racialized with experience of racism, which may include People of African or Caribbean heritage, People of Asian Heritage (South, East, Southeast, Central) People of Middle Eastern, South American, Islander or Indigenous heritage.
Image Credits: Tayarisha Poe