New York, NY
Priestess of Twerk: A Black Femme Star Temple + Wisdom School
a performance, a spa, and a temple
Nia Witherspoon’s new work, Priestess of Twerk: A Black Femme Star Temple + Wisdom School is a performance, a spa, and a temple that merges African traditional religious approaches to healing and Black feminist theologies to both envision and enact a more evolved world through embodied experiences. By centering all radical forms of femme agency, including womb health, creative expression, dreamwork, sacred sexuality, and gender affirmation, Priestess of Twerk aims to create a space where Black Femme health is prioritized and honored on our own terms. Experience a two-hour Song Circle of Priestess of Twerk that highlights music from the ritual-opera inside participatory communal ceremony. Tickets are available on a sliding scale, but patrons will enjoy the same experience.
Audience Role
Ceremony participant.
Ages: 16 +
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About HERE Arts Center
Since 1993, HERE has been one of New York’s most prolific arts organizations. Today, it stands at the forefront of the city’s cultural scene, producing and presenting daring, new, multidisciplinary performance experiences. From our home in Lower Manhattan, HERE builds an inclusive community that nurtures artists of all backgrounds as they disrupt conventional expectations to create innovative performances in theatre, dance, music, puppetry, media, and visual art. By providing these genre-blending artists with an adaptive, flexible home for developing and producing their work, we share a range of perspectives reflective of the complexity of our city. HERE welcomes curious audiences to witness groundbreaking performances, responsive to the world in which we live, at free and affordable prices. HERE strives to create an equitable, diverse, and inclusive home in which all people have fair access to the resources they need to realize their visions. We acknowledge structural inequities that exclude individuals and communities from opportunities based on race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, class, age, and geography, and seek to counter those inequities in our work. Through mindful actions on sustainability and regenerative practices, we work toward climate justice, and a safe, livable planet for present and future artmakers and audiences.