àjé - a cosmic performance meditation through mxnstrual blood
· Durham Black August 2016 ·
Atlanta April 2017 · D.C June 2017 ·

àjé is an Afro-sacred elemental energy that originates in mxnstrual blood and is rooted in the textured rhythms of Yòrúba mythohxstory.  this interplanetary production is a cosmic meditation performance exploring the ecologies of mxnstrual (moon)blood, how it has/does/can inform(ed) Black body movement, and what tools this body of water has/does/can offer(ed) us in getting free...
*production and artist assistance made possible in part by durham arts council*

Audio: Lucille Clifton - Poem In Praise of Mxnstruation

if there is a river

more beautiful than this

bright as the blood

red edge of the moon          if

there is a river

more faithful than this

returning each month

to the same delta          if there

is a river

braver than this

coming and coming in a surge

of passion, of pain          if there is

a river

more ancient than this

daughter of eve

mother of cain and of abel          if there is in

the universe such a river          if

there is some where water

more powerful than this wild

water

pray that it flows also

through animals

beautiful and faithful and ancient

and female and brave 
Lucille Clifton, "poem in praise of menstruation" from The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton. Copyright © 2000 by Lucille Clifton.  Reprinted by permission of BOA Editions, Ltd., www.boaeditions.org.

Photo/Video Archive from àjé's
Durham, NC debut

Photos by India Piece Photography · Video by Rising Cypress.