She Said/She Said: How to Catch a Flying Woman
This weekend, Actors Bridge presents a choreopoem — that is, a combination of poetry, dance and song — by Cynthia Harris called How to Catch a Flying Woman. The piece is about women who follow big ideas that go against the grain. These women take risks. They walk away from distractions. And sometimes, when soaring toward a big idea, they fall. Who will pick them up and carry them home?
Harris says she wanted to capture the way black women speak to each other and affirm one another’s humanity. The production will combine poetry, dance, movement and song in the style of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.
Harris, who stole the show in February’s production of The Vagina Monologues at City Winery, stars alongside OlaOmi Amoloku, Tasneem Grace Tewogbola, L. Opanike Shelton and Nailah Ajamu. This is the final show in Actors Bridge’s series She Said/She Said: A Summer of Women’s Stories.
ERICA CICCARONE
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She is a self-described Writer/ Performance Artist/ Dancer/ Activist/ Health Educator/ Everyday Magical Waterfixin HooDoo Woman and proud southerner. A natural sign watcher, very much in tune with her surroundings, Ms. Harris finds it almost impossible not to hear the stories hovering around people. Growing up in a multi-talented family, she always felt at peace pursuing her creative interests. However when it came time to choose a career, Cynthia chose to focus on her parallel interest in health and graduated from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University with a BS in biology in 1999. Her subsequent work in the field of women’s reproductive health research fed her appreciation for the analytical and gave her the opportunity to study human behavior, leading her to not only be a vocal advocate for women’s health issues, but to create stories of empowerment. Her first performance piece, “Phrases of Womanhood”, has been performed since 2002 in Tennessee and Georgia by the Phoenix Ensemble under the direction of Ms. Helen Shute-Pettaway. Her performance piece, “Why Won’t She Leave?” has been presented nationally since its debut in 2005.
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