Research Catalog

Title

Slow down and walk : a conversation / Nadine George-Graves and Okwui Okpokwasili.

Author

George-Graves, Nadine

Publication

• Brooklyn, New York : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020.
• [Berkeley, California] : Small Press Distribution ; [London] : Inpress Books
• [Saline, Michigan] : McNaughton & Gunn
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Okpokwasili, Okwui, 1972-
• Kuan, Chuck
• Lawson, Sarah
• Zhuang, Wen
• Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher.
• McNaughton & Gunn, printer, binder.

Description

30 pages; 20 cm.

Summary

"In a conversation that took place in August 2020, during a global pandemic and in the wake of mass uprisings across the US against systemic racism and police brutality, scholar and choreographer Nadine George-Graves and performance-maker and dancer Okwui Okpokwasili discuss ideas of collaborative practice, radical forgiveness, virtuosity, and community. Reflecting on Okpokwasili's and Peter Born's practice and installation from March 2020, Sitting on a Man's Head, the two women consider how art making reflects the kind of imagination of how one might live in the world, proposing modes of relation that are neither predatory nor transactional, but grounded in care. This conversation originally took part as an event for 50WomenAtYale150, and was co-sponsored by Yale Women, the Yale Alumni Association, and the Yale Black Alumni Association."--Publisher's website (viewed 2021 February 1).

Series Statement

2020 Pamphlet Series

Uniform Title

2020 Pamphlet Series.

Subject

• Okpokwasili, Okwui, 1972-
• 2000-2099
• African American women > Drama
• African American women > Social conditions
• Identity (Philosophical concept)
• American drama > 21st century
• African American women
• American drama

Genre/Form

Drama.

Note

• "Edition of 1000 copies. Series design by chuck kuan and Sarah Lawson, Typeset by Wen Zhuang. Type is New Century Schoolbook. Cover paper and flyleaf from French Paper Co. Printed offset and bound at McNaughton & Gunn. Flyleaf printed letterpress at Ugly Duckling Presse."--Colophon.
• "Adapted from Slow down and walk with Okwui Okpokwasili, a video interview presented by 50WomenAtYale150."--Colophon.

Call Number

JX 23-909

ISBN

• 9781946433534
• 1946433535

OCLC

1235849074

Author

George-Graves, Nadine, author.

Title

Slow down and walk : a conversation / Nadine George-Graves and Okwui Okpokwasili.

Publisher

Brooklyn, New York : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020.

Distributor

[Berkeley, California] : Small Press Distribution ; [London] : Inpress Books

Manufacturer

[Saline, Michigan] : McNaughton & Gunn

Copyright Date

©2020

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

2020 Pamphlet Series

2020 Pamphlet Series.

Biography

"Nadine George-Graves's work is situated at the intersections of African American studies, critical gender studies, performance studies, theatre history, and dance history. She is the author of The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender, and Class in African American Theater, 1900-1940 (Palgrave Macmillan) and Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of Dance Theater, Community Engagement and Working it Out (University of Wisconsin Press) and has written on primitivity, ragtime dance, tap dance legend Jeni LeGon, identity politics and performance, competition, social change, early African American theatre, and the future of performance in the academy. In addition to her academic work, George-Graves is also an artist, and her creative work is part and parcel of her research. She is an adapter, director, and dance theatre maker. Her recent creative projects include Architectura, a dance theatre piece about the ways we build our lives; Suzan-Lori Parks' Fucking A and Topdog/Underdog; Anansi, the Story King, an original adaptation of Anansi stories using college students, professionals, and 4th graders; and Sugar, a digital humanities project at the nexus of creativity and scholarship."--Publisher's website (viewed 2021 February 1).

"Okwui Okpokwasili is a performer, choreographer, and writer creating multidisciplinary performance pieces that draw viewers into the interior lives of women of color, particularly those of African and African American women, whose stories have long been overlooked and rendered invisible. Her formally experimental productions include Bronx Gothic, Adaku's Revolt, Poor People's TV Room, and Sitting on a Man's Head, and bring together elements of dance, theater, and the visual arts (with spare and distinctive sets designed by her husband and collaborator, Peter Born). She has held residencies at the Maggie Allesee National Choreographic Center, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Rauschenberg Foundation Captiva Residency, and New York Live Arts, where she was a Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist. She has been awarded several Bessie Awards and was a 2018 MacArthur Fellow."--Publisher's website (viewed 2021 February 1).

Local Subject

Black author.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Place of Publication

United States New York Brooklyn.

Added Author

Okpokwasili, Okwui, 1972- author.

Kuan, Chuck, series designer.

Lawson, Sarah, series designer.

Zhuang, Wen, compositor.

Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher.

McNaughton & Gunn, printer, binder.

Research Call Number

Sc D 21-253