to Bare the Rose ||| a visual memoir Nana Chinara
About This Show
to Bare the Rose ||| a visual memoir is a solo self-exploration of intimacy and trauma under love. This memoir recounts, redefines, and relearns truths of Black Queer Femme Love, and the ways violence retaliates against it. It is an interdisciplinary work encompassing movement, film, voice-overs, installation, and poetry to share the encounters of a lover who fails to love the self and others at the same time. This competition between self-love and self-lost manifests a need for truth seeking and vulnerability through memory. to Bare the Rose is itself a healing journey through acts of self-research, creating, and baring.
about the artist
Nana Chinara creates. She’s Black, Queer, and a gleaming glitterbeam. She dreams up worlds in her body, and offers them to the stage. A performance artist, youth educator, and loquacious lover, her craft calls upon exploring sweet intimacy with the self, and seeking the truths in her heart. From contemporary to burlesque to healing to revealing, she’s fascinated with her journey to liberating her body. Her art is the lens through which she conducts self and community research on violence against young black femmes, traumatic partnerships, and multidimensional love.
Friday, July 6, 2018 at 7:30pm
General Admission
$15 in advance
$18 at the door
Stu./Sen./idNYC
$12 in advance
$15 at the door
60 minutes
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Credits
Director and Choreographer
Nana Chinara
Video Artist
Monique Muse Dodd
Talkback host
nicole shanté
Photo credit:
Kalyn Jacobs