Symara Sarai
I want it to rain inside
Jan 11 at 1pm
Jan 13 at 3pm
I want it to rain inside is a physical voyage through Symara Sarai’s paternal and maternal lineage, a complex and tender cascade. Paying homage to her late father and longing to understand him better she embodies his complex personhood. Through family lore with lassoing as an access point she uses American cultural fantasy from her fathers lineage in the wild West and deep South. The work is juxtaposed next to that which she does know; the matriarchal. She performs a series of scores that center autonomy and liberation, energetically emboldening the black feminine to charge boundlessly through space and time.
The development of this work was made possible in part by a 2023/2024 Women in Motion Commission and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation through Eva Dean Dance.
Live Artery 2025 is made possible in part with generous support from the following contributors: Anonymous, Betsy Berne, Amy Cassello, Christine Dakin, Cathy Edwards, Rachel Mckinstry, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Kathy Westwater.
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