Chibueze Crouch | how the blood blooms

Chibueze Crouch
Performing Artist/ Multi Media Artist
@carefreeblackauntie

"how the blood blooms" explores the ancestral ties between Afro Diasporic folks that transcend language, place, culture, and constructed identity politics. I believe that fostering intimacy and building relationships between people descended from the African continent is one way to access the ancestral connections many have been denied. It is also a powerful way to break the cycles of disunity encouraged among Black and African communities of all backgrounds. Using original video footage of close friends and chosen family, as well as poetry, in this work I trace the interconnected ways we fit together and diverge, the ways our blood seeks each other instinctually, and how we can find home in each other. 

About Chibueze Crouch

Chibueze* Crouch is a performance artist born on Paugussett land (Danbury, CT) currently living on Chochenyo Ohlone land (Oakland, CA). Trained primarily in theater and voice, her interdisciplinary practice straddles writing, song, performing arts and intuitive movement. Chibueze examines Igbo cosmology, the ephemeral nature of ritual, Diasporic longing, and the nuances of queer Black identities through solo performances and devised collaborative works. An RHE Artistic Fellowship recipient for 2019-2020 and proud member of the Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women, her work has been seen at CounterPulse, Brava Theater, the National Queer Arts Festival, and Crowded Fire Theater, among others. 

*pronounced: chee-bu-way-zay