Masters Final Performance - Adriana Jamisse

ABOUT

About LOKU NZI WA HI NYANYANE, NZI WA TA HAHA by Adriana Jamisse:

‘if I was a bird, I would fly’

This is a song in Xitswa that my grandmother taught my family and I.

She sang it to reassure us, to express joy, and as a way of making a wish.

Within this song there is a longing, a comforting and a lesson.

This song has taught me how to dream.

This process was an experiential navigation of how memories resound and resonate in our bodies as we built a sonic relationship to each other. Through moving, voicing and remembering we share the often complex and fleeting, yet deeply rooted echoes of how memories are living in us. We remember our grandmothers while simultaneously remembering ourselves, and dreaming about the spaces in-between. I invite you to sit or lie on the floor and to listen, as three performers of different modality backgrounds explore in real-time four moments of improvisation based on the practice of Vocal-Movement Meditation (VMM). In our creative process, VMM deepened our embodied exploration of matriarchival memories through integrating moving and voicing, while allowing aural, textural and material poetry to emerge. VMM is a practice of presence, of deep-listening and of wandering through embodied places of sound and memory.

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