The artist might be best known for Black Cotton Club and her uncanny ability to draw people in. But beneath her warm stage presence is a politics of Black liberation.
Performance artist Dzidzor glances across the beach as vocalist Thamanai sings at a rest activation at Carson Beach in Boston.
“I was like, well, why not sort of use this idea of the Cotton Club, but instead of it being a Black performer performing to an audience of white folks, Black performers really performing to themselves,” Dzidzor explained. This is classic Dzidzor. She has an uncanny ability to draw people in. It's what stood out to Boston's poet laureate, Porsha Olayiwola, when she first encountered Dzidzor in the local slam poetry scene.
“As a first generation kid, you sort of learn how to make others comfortable in ways that suppress how you to express yourself,” Dzidzor explained. “You cannot show your anger, you have to play nice, you have to be better, three times better than the next person behind you.”
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