Meditation: The Clearing | Dzidzor | TEDxRoxbury

Dzidzor’s style of call and response reimagines poetry and story-telling as a way to include the audience in an experience to challenge, inspire, and encourage self beyond traditional forms. Dzidzor (pronounced Jee-Joh) is a Ga-Ewe folklore performing artist and led by her curiosity. Her unique approach blends call-and-response with a rich tapestry of sound, fusing poetry, storytelling, and auditory elements to create an immersive experience that grounds the audience in their own bodies. Through her performance art, Dzidzor dismantles the conventional notion of a passive audience, instead beckoning them to step forward and become integral participants in the experience. Her body of work is a tapestry woven with threads of curiosity, exploring profound inquiries about divinity, community, home, blackness, and identity. She sensitively acknowledges those ensnared by a system that has historically overlooked black and brown individuals. Dzidzor explores the possibility within bodies to unshackle themselves from internalized oppression, both in the mind and body, through practices of rest, deliberate stillness. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.