One Drop

Author(s): Sonya Lindfors
Company: Big Pulse Dance Alliance with Battersea Arts Centre and Dance Umbrella

One Drop, a new performance by Sonya Lindfors & working group, is a speculative summoning, a decolonial dream, an autopsy of the Western stage and an operetta.

The title of the work refers to two separate concepts: the one drop rhythm which is a reggae style drumbeat as well as to the one drop rule of the Race Separation Act, created in the United States in the early 1900s, according to which a single drop of “Black blood” made a person “Black” despite their appearance.

Through its multiple starting points, the work interrogates the ghosts of the Western stage and its entanglements and relationships to capitalism, coloniality and modernity.

Performances

Battersea Arts Centre (BAC), Battersea 19–20 Oct 2023

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