Good Stock On The Dimension Floor: An Opera

Good Stock On The Dimension Floor: An Opera

'What happens to the Black body when it is haunted by "a Blackness" outside of it?'

2014 · 58 min · Music

A collectively made filmic opera in 35 parts. The Black and predominantly queer art collective, an evolving line up of poets and artists from across the world, abstracts and reimagines opera in any traditional conception. Set to hip-hop, blues, noise, R&B and electronica, the piece uses the voice (chanting, singing, screaming; written by poet and activist Dawn Lundy Martin) as its primary tool, verbalising centuries of alienation, vulnerability and protest in the global African diaspora through its disruptive libretto.

Written by Dawn Lundy Martin

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