"Ma(s)king Her" is a dance theater work of speculative fiction. Aligned with AfroSurrealism and black feminist thought, "Ma(s)king Her" is a moving modern folktale. The work emphasizes the urgency of creating alternative worlds/economies of value for women of color in a world that often subjugates their collective presence to silence and/or invisibility.
Black feminist fiction and theory from writers such as Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Wynter, and Nalo Hopkinson act as guideposts to h...
"Ma(s)king Her" is a dance theater work of speculative fiction. Aligned with AfroSurrealism and black feminist thought, "Ma(s)king Her" is a moving modern folktale. The work emphasizes the urgency of creating alternative worlds/economies of value for women of color in a world that often subjugates their collective presence to silence and/or invisibility.
Black feminist fiction and theory from writers such as Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Wynter, and Nalo Hopkinson act as guideposts to help shape Honey Pot Performance’s facilitation of a community-driven process wherein co-authorship of a contemporary myth is the goal. Community participants take part in a series of reading groups, dialogues, story circles, performance workshops, and “choose your own adventure” game structures to co-create the world of our collective heroines.
Honey Pot Performance (HPP) is a creative collaborative committed to chronicling Afro-diasporic feminist and fringe subjectivities amidst the pressures of contemporary global life. HPP carries a notion found both in performance studies and black feminist discourse: non-Western, everyday popular and/or folk forms of cultural performance are valuable sites of knowledge production and cultural capital for subjectivities that often exist outside of mainstream communities. The collaborative was created in 2001, by four members: Meida McNeal, Felicia Holman, Aisha Jean Baptiste, and Abra M. Johnson.
