"What does it mean to birth a body free of shame?" Experience the performance November 13th and 14th at the Multicultural Arts Center.
GODBODY: a ritual opera, by Diovanna Obafunmilayo Frazier and Directed by Martavius Parrish
GODBODY is a ritual opera, an ancestral (re)birthday party, and spiritually charged dance theatre. Fusing elements of Hip Hop culture, Afro-cuban and Yoruba religious ceremony and philosophy, queer joy, live painting, comedy, and poetry, it tasks itself with the making of a body without shame. The body becomes a site of divinity, emotionality, and the processing of those emotions via Black spiritual technologies.
GODBODY was developed with the support of the 2025 Artist-in-Residence Program and the Fall 2026 and 2027 Randall Bourscheidt Technical Residency at CPR – Center for Performance Research, funded, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Americans for the Arts National Arts Relief Fund, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Howard Gilman Foundation, IndieSpace, and Mertz Gilmore Foundation.
Content Warning: There may be balloons popping.
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Highlights
- 1 hour 30 minutes
- In person
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Location
Multicultural Arts Center
41 Second Street
Cambridge, MA 02141
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Agenda
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GODBODY: Archiving the Ritual
After the matinee performance of GODBODY, continue the ritual with us in the gallery. We will gather for a talk-back with the creator, director, and performers of Godbody