Morgan Amirah and Brandon Wint
This moving piece features the choreography and movement of Morgan Amirah (Atlanta) and the poetry of Brandon Wint (Vancouver), presented by the Consulate General of Canada in Atlanta. Click here to view the text of Brandon’s poem, Tomorrow Promises Futures.
“I felt your openness generally, and so it wasn’t a lot of awkward dancing to find the way into having authentic conversations...”
MORGAN AND BRANDON TALK PROCESS
“We were both really interested in exploring the ideas of our present, just how we are both experiencing the time in isolation, in quarantine during this pandemic, but also inhabiting the bodies that we do and being attuned to the world around us. And thinking about our futures…”
MORGAN AMIRAH
Morgan Amirah is an Artist by design.
With a natural affinity for creation, she began her artistic wanderings in her hometown of Atlanta, GA as a young dancer. As she further nurtured her talents, Morgan attended art school for most of her youth where she studied dance, choreography, film, television, and instrumental music. Her love of the arts has allowed her to study abroad at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD) and choreograph internationally in Agropoli, Italy.
At just the age of 21, she is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in dance. In the summer of 2020, she founded the Collegiate Association for Artists of Color envisioning a world in which art belongs to ALL and not some. To date, Morgan has created several hybrid works for stage and film within her body of creation Pit222Palace.
Morgan currently resides in Atlanta as a teacher, advocate, freelance choreographer, performing artist, and filmmaker with a personal vision of imploring the use of movement to explore reciprocity as a means of feeding the earth and soul.︎
There are no limits to her creative pursuits as she is eager to better her worlds within and without.
BRANDON WINT
Brandon Wint is an Ontario born poet and spoken word artist who uses poetry to attend to the joy and devastation and inequity
associated with this era of human and ecological history. Increasingly, his work on the page and in performance casts a tender but robust attention toward the movements and impacts of colonial, capitalist logic, and how they might be undone. In this way, Brandon Wint is devoted to a poetics of world making, world altering and world breaking.
For Brandon, the written and spoken word is a tool for examining and enacting his sense of justice, and imagining less violence futures for himself and the world he has inherited. For more than a decade, Brandon has been a sought-after, touring performer, and has presented his work in the United States, Australia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Jamaica. His poems and essays have been published in national anthologies, including The Great Black North: Contemporary African-Canadian Poetry (Frontenac House, 2013) and Black Writers Matter (University of Regina Press, 2019). Divine Animal is his debut book of poetry.