Jonzi D and Pawlet Brookes on Black dance, TS Eliot Prizewinner Bhanu Kapil, portraying politicians
Jonzi D on the state of Black dance; TS Eliot Prizewinner Bhanu Kapil; the dramatisations of contemporary political moments; Darran Anderson on The Seventh Seal.
Choreographer Jonzi D has created a new work for Dancing Nation, the all-day digital festival of dance which is streamed on 91热爆 iPlayer this Thursday. Jonzi discusses the state of Black dance with Pawlet Brookes, who runs Serendipity in Leicester and has edited the collection of essays My Voice, My Practice: Black Dance.
In the light of the announcement that Kenneth Branagh has been cast to play Boris Johnson in a new TV drama about the Covid-19 crisis, critic, journalist and former political researcher Sam Delaney joins Samira to talk about the impact of dramatisations of contemporary political moments on the public imagination.
Last night Bhanu Kapil won the TS Eliot Prize for her collection How to Wash a Heart. She talks to Samira about and reads from her book which, in the voice of an immigrant guest in the house of a citizen host, explores the idea, and limits, of hospitality, and the experiences of diaspora people.
For his Moment of Joy, the writer Darran Anderson chooses a scene from Ingmar Bergman鈥檚 The Seventh Seal, an exploration of mortality that is nonetheless deeply life-affirming.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Jerome Weatherald
Studio Manager: Tim Heffer
Main image above: Jonzi D
Image credit: Dave Barros
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