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.
