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A Dancer Takes the Stage
Posted by DCA Theater on November 2, 2011 in July-December 2011 Season, DanceBridge Showcase Fall 2011
Ni’Ja Whitson has been keeping busy this fall. In addition to participating in DanceBridge, she was also a LinkUP resident at Links Hall. In September, Ni’Ja performed her solo installation work, root shock.
[the following description originally posted here] 
root shock re-imagines Yoruba diasporic Orisa storytelling traditions and excavates the relationship between trauma and the ancestral / spiritual world. 
Through narrative and transdisciplinary expression, the text invokes a ritual performance space where time serves as an active personae and vessel. 
Performed in a single body, root shock sits as a dynamic experimentation into layering flesh, voice, and time. It conjures. It releases. It reclaims. 
root shock was performed September 23, 24 & 25 2011 at Links Hall.
All photos shown taken by John W. Sisson, Jr.
For the complete set of images, click here.
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