'What happens to the Black body when it is haunted by "a Blackness" outside of it?'
A collectively made filmic opera in 35 parts. The Black and predominantly queer art collective, an evolving line up of poets and artists from across the world, abstracts and reimagines opera in any traditional conception. Set to hip-hop, blues, noise, R&B and electronica, the piece uses the voice (chanting, singing, screaming; written by poet and activist Dawn Lundy Martin) as its primary tool, verbalising centuries of alienation, vulnerability and protest in the global African diaspora through its disruptive libretto.
Stormy Weather69%
Kinky Boots: The Musical77%
The Tales of Hoffmann71%
Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted60%
Space Is the Place58%
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown69%
Sarafina!61%
O'Dessa58%
Beats66%
Too Late Blues63%
Ziegfeld Follies60%
Black Is King71%
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom66%
The Jazz Singer61%
The Fighting Temptations58%
Sweet and Lowdown67%
A Night at the Opera74%
Hairspray Live!73%
Hello Again59%
Guava Island66%
