16 April 2021
Suggestion jar for Tammaka StaleyI’ll keep this brief — since Tammaka Staley is much better at this words thing compared to I am. Her spoken phrase piece “My Skin” (performed in front of Michael Dantzler’s “Columbia Map of Infinite Connectedness” mural in the Lincoln Tube in the Vista) speaks regarding itself, and doesn’t require anyone else to speak for this. So I will simply say that the girl emotionally honest but still completely charming delivery should be preserved and used again and again simply by anyone who needs to argue contrary to the idea that poetic recitation is certainly somehow lesser than other styles of performative art. Which watching her deliver ranges like, “Felt no more convenience than the cysts and acne starting riots on the face / Each one an increased fist ripping the surface and Inflamed and growing such as tension / Bullet huge / Shoot first once the smile triggers the quarter, ” wearing a T-shirt imprinted with the message, “land from the free my a**, inch hit as powerfully every episode in the “1 or even 2” series. More than something, “My Skin” reminds myself that the beauty we notice in art and the elegance we see in yourself are among our the majority of personal truths. I hope it helps you reflect on both. The particular “1 or 2” socially distanced performance series had been started in April 2020 for connecting Columbians with local performers during the pandemic, and to provide those artists a chance to obtain a paycheck when such possibilities have become more rare. Free of charge Times remains grateful to the partners in this endeavor — One Columbia, Richland Collection and SceneSC — designed for helping us keep it heading. To check out more “1 or even 2” videos, all of which are usually freely accessible without an on-line subscription, head to free-times. com/1or2. (SHOT AND EDITED SIMPLY BY DAVID STRINGER)
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