Okwui Okpokwasili: Poor People’s TV Room
CAP UCLA | Feb. 8–11, REDCAT
“Okpokwasili is quite simply a virtuoso, an exquisite singer, speaker, writer, mover, a siren who draws us to danger.”
—Chicago Tribune
In association with REDCAT, the Center for the Art of Performance is pleased to support the presentation of CAP UCLA resident artist Okwui Okpokwasili’s newest work, Poor People’s TV Room. Okpokwasili uses an interdisciplinary, intensely visual and textured lens to look at issues of gender, culture and identity as they are expressed in American and global contexts. Rooted in the kinetic history of collective action in Nigeria, Poor People’s TV Room draws from historical events to explore the amnesia around collective action initiated by African women and builds a narrative around the impact of that erasure. Through choreography, song, text and film, Poor People’s TV Room crosses disciplines to create a visceral performance where the past is alive and unleashed in the present.
More detailed information is available on the Center for the Art of Performance website.
Event Dates: Feb. 8–10, 8:30 p.m. & Feb. 11, 7 p.m.
Venue: REDCAT
Price: $30–35
REDCAT is located in the Walt Disney Concert Hall Complex at 631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles CA, 90012
Parking is available in the Walt Disney Concert Hall parking garage.
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