The Twins - Triple Canopy

The Twins
Helga Davis, Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born

Helga Davis starred in the 25th anniversary international tour of Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach; Wilson’s The Temptation of St. Anthony, with libretto and score by Bernice Johnson Reagon, of Sweet Honey in the Rock; Milton, by Katie Pearl and Lisa Damour; Elsewhere, with cellist Maya Beiser, with music by Missy Mazolli; and The Blue Planet, a multimedia theater piece written by Peter Greenaway and directed by Saskia Boddeke. She is the recipient of the BRIC Fireworks grant and completed her first full-length theater piece, Cassandra. Davis may also be heard on the new VIA Records release, Oceanic Verses, a multimedia opera work written for her by composer Paola Prestini. In Fall 2015, Davis performed in her fifth Next Wave festival at BAM, in Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) and Andrew Ondrejcak’s You Usa We All. She hosts a podcast, HELGA, on WQXR’s Q2, and was awarded an ASCAP Multimedia Award for hosting 24:33: twenty-four hours and thirty-three minutes of the playful and playable John Cage.

Okwui Okpokwasili is a Brooklyn-based writer, choreographer, and actress working at the intersection of theater, dance, and installation. She collaborates regularly with Peter Born and Ralph Lemon. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships.

Peter Born is a director, visual designer, and filmmaker.

The Twins was published as part of Triple Canopy’s Internet As Material project area, which receives support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston, the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

The Twins was performed by Helga Davis and Okwui Okpokwasili, with a visual score by Peter Born, on the occasion of Triple Canopy’s 2017 benefit honoring Hilton Als.

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