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adaku, part 1: the road opens by Okwui Okpokwasili
May 25, 2023 • 8:30 pm - May 27, 2023 • 8:30 pm
$25
REDCAT presents Okwui Okpokwasili’s new theater piece, which centers around a young African American girl who loses all of her hair after using a chemical straightener, only to have it restored by the power of a mysterious, unhoused woman. The young girl’s hair comes back with properties that restore genetic and cultural memory and allow her to discover her family’s precolonial past. A work that centers around the complexity of repair, physical and psychic, that will require traveling to the past and into the future.
“A riveting presence in her own unclassifiable creations, Okpokwasili can leave an audience vibrating, moved by images and incantations that linger long after a performance has ended.” — Siobhan Burke, Dance Magazine
The project was funded through the support of ICA Boston, Brown University and was partially developed in a Studio Residency at The Museum of Modern Art, as part of the Hyundai Card Performance Series.