On April 21, 2017 in the United Kingdom, a photograph of Zinzi Minott in a rattan chair made on a crowded city street was published on Twitter as a promo for her solo dance work “What Kind Of Slave Would I Be?”.
From Zinzi Minott’s website
“Zinzi Minott’s work focuses on the relationship between dance, bodies and politics.
Strongly identifying as a dancer, she seeks to complicate the boundaries of dance and the place of black female bodies within the form. Her work explores how dance is perceived through the prisms of race, queer culture, gender and class. Zinzi is interested in the space between dance and other art forms, and though her practice is driven through dance, the outcomes range from performance and live art to sound, film, dances and object-based work.
She successfully premiered her new work What Kind of Slave Would I Be? to a full house at Rich Mix and is planning to tour the piece this autumn alongside an R&D period into a new work based the dance in grime.”
Source: zinziminott.com
What Kind Of Slave Would I Be? WKOSWIB?
(pronounced nWIK-uooh-IB) Investigates dance, race, the archive and her own slave narrative through residencies at Rich Mix and Dance Research Space, and partnerships with Live Art Development agency and Unbound publishers. Sound score by Nkisi. Produced by Claire Sivier and Tian Glasgow. Photography by Rohan Ayinde.
