Posted On: May 29th 2026, 03:23 pm
Included in Danspace Project’s Journal Issue #19 is a poem by Moroccan poet and translator Omar Berrada, one of the Writers-in-Residence of Platform 2020.
This poem-sequence was written in 2025 from notes Berrada took during a solo performance by Meryem Jazouli, titled “Folkah!” presented by Danspace Project on March 9th, 2020 (part of Platform 2020: Utterances From The Chorus, co-curated by Okwui Okpokwasili and Judy Hussie-Taylor).
📷: Meryem Jazouli, Folkah! Photo: Ian Douglas