People have slotted themselves into things that have been imported from overseas. You find people wanting to sound like Ursula Rucker. I do lyrical improvisation. I tend to deconstruct a poem.
I'm slightly deaf so I always tell a story from how I feel it. My performance at the Urban Voices festival in Cape Town last year was shaded in what I felt in that moment.
My words don't hold water when they're just written. They have to be performed.
Sometimes I do my poetry as dance, sometimes I sing it. read more
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