Sonya Lindfors on One Drop | Creating a decolonial dream on stage

A speculative summoning, a decolonial dream, an autopsy of the Western stage and an operetta. Defying definition and belonging to multiple categories, One Drop dives into the poetics and politics of relations, creating a dance performance that reignites connections lost or forgotten.
Watch the trailer for One Drop: • One Drop by Sonya Lind...
The title of the work refers to two separate concepts - the one drop rhythm which is a reggae style drum beat as well as to the one drop rule of the Race Separation Act, created in the United States in the early 1900s, according to which a single drop of “Black blood” made a person “Black” despite their appearance. Through its multiple starting points, the work interrogates the ghosts of the Western stage and its entanglements and relationships to capitalism, coloniality and modernity.
Award winning Cameroonian-Finnish choreographer and artistic director, Sonya Lindfors creates important work exploring power, representation and Black body politics. She is the Artistic Director and founding member of UrbanApa, an interdisciplinary and counter hegemonic arts community that offers a platform for new ideas and feminist art practices.
19-20 Oct, Battersea Arts Centre (UK Premiere) | Learn more: danceumbrella....
Part of Dance Umbrella Festival 2023 | 6-31 October, Across London & online #DUFest23
A Big Pulse Dance Alliance co-production (a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union).
Supported by the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland.
Filmed & edited by Henry Curtis www.henry-curt...
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