Mankwe Ndosi and Body mEmOri

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

TIME: 9:30-10:30PM

VENUE: LOGAN CENTER performance PENTHOUSE. 915 East 60TH ST.

Close up of a woman’s face, followed by an image of a man wearing an orange cap and playing a drum set against a bright blue background.

MANKWE NDOSI

Mankwe Ndosi is a spirit singer/composer/culture worker of sound and soil. Her work is aimed at supporting the interconnection and liberation of our personal, social, and terrastral structures, practices, and mythologies. Her practice emerges from black ritual legacies of music and performance learned from and played with Douglas R. Ewart, Laurie Smith Carlos, Sharon Bridgforth, Amoke Kubat, Nicole Mitchell, Miriam Makeba, Zach Bagaason, ancestors, earth, and many peers across species, cultures, and creative genres. Body mEmOri is an ensemble using the sensations and stories in our bodies to create feeling rooms for collective vibration and personal journeying.

DAVU SERU

Improvising drummer and composer Davu Seru has worked throughout the U.S. and France with artists including Anthony Cox, Milo Fine, George Cartwright, Nirmala Rajasekar, Douglas R. Ewart, Michelle Kinney, Dean Magraw, Paul Metzger, Evan Parker, J. Otis Powell‽, Didier Petit, Mankwe Ndosi, Jack Wright, Babatunde Lea, Nathan Hanson, Rafael Toral, Donald Washington, Louis Alemayehu, Ta-coumba Aiken, and Nicole Mitchell. He is bandleader for the ensembles Motherless Dollar and No Territory Band.

The musicians:

Davu Seru – drums

Mankwe Ndosi – singer/composer

Tomeka Reid – cello

Silvia Bolognesi – bass