December 3rd at 7:30 PM

AMINAH IBRAHIM:
Come Back to me, don’t explain (an ode to lady day)

Speechless, breathless, crippled in fear, floating in awe as all those in the earth shall swoon surrendering to the last melody. This performance is grounded in prostration that sits in deep contemplation, articulating the spine to delicately rise to stand, a spell singing with sacred hips and rattling sacrum as an instrument, sharply twisting the seat of the soul as a call for reckoning and resurrection.
(Photo credit: Farah Al Quasimi)

This will be performed as part of a double bill with let it fly by Michel Papach Koukakou

About the artist

AMINAH IBRAHIM

Aminah Ibrahim is a Black/Kuwaiti/Indonesian artist, archivist, and creative researcher raised in Kuwait and based in NYC. Aminah explores the body as spiritual instrument through somatics, Islamic practices, Austronesian culture, and the blues. Inspired by the barzakh, described in the Qur'an as the barrier between sweet and salty water, mortal realm and spirit world, improvisation and meditative repetition are used to explore postures of prayer, finding space in flesh. Performances are rituals of offering, an embodied contemplation towards freedom and abstraction to build portals for new mythologies, with custom garb and sound scores annotating this body language.