Meet the artist: Peter Born and Wanjiru Kamuyu
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On the occasion of the Italian premiere of Bronx Gothic, a conversation with Carlotta Cossutta, moderator of the talk, Peter Born, husband and creative partner of US dancer and choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili, and Wanjiru Kamuyu, who gives a new body to this solo about the entanglement of violence and desire in the life of two young black girls in the Bronx, who yearn to be visible to each other in a world that makes them invisible. Part dance, part theater and part installation, Bronx Gothic is an embodiment of empathy; a razor-sharp performance that epitomizes an anti-racist, decolonial and feminist stance as it tells a singular human story.
Wanjiru Kamuyu, native Kenyan based in Paris, France, is associate artist with Theater L’Onde (Vélizy, France) and a Live Feed artist with New York Live Arts (USA). As a performer, she has worked with leading international coreographers, directors and artists, and has performed in industrials, television and Broadway musicals. Kamuyu founded WKcollective, associate company with creative production agency camin aktion (Montpellier, France). Her choreographic projects include tours in the US, Africa, Asia and Europe.
Peter Born works as a director, composer and designer of performance and installation, often in collaboration with Okwui Okpokwasili, with whom he has created the installation repose without rest without end in Trondheim (2021), Swallow the Moon at Jacob’s Pillow (2021), on the way, undone at the High Line (2021), Poor People’s TV Room (SOLO) installation at the New Museum and the Hammer Museum (2021), Sitting on a Man’s Head (2019) at Danspace Project, Adaku’s Revolt (2019) at Abrons Arts Center, At the Anterior Edge (2018) with the Barnard Dance Department, Poor People’s TV Room (2017), when I return, who will receive me (2016), Bronx Gothic (The Oval) (2014), Bronx Gothic (2013) and pent-up: a revenge dance (2009), as well as an album they produced together “day pulls down the sky” (2019). Their work has also appeared in the Berlin Biennale and at the Tate Museum, London. Four of Peter’s collaborations have garnered New York Dance Performance “Bessie” Awards.