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Latif Askia Ba. Photo by Tarek Dekkaki. Courtesy the artist.

Join CPR 2025 AiR Latif Askia Ba and dancer Sophie Frizzell for Dancing the Pause, an evening in the choreic period. In 2025, Latif published a second book of poetry, The Choreic Period, as part of his MFA Thesis. His poetry exclusively uses periods as punctuation to explore lyrical embodiments of disability. In this practice, the period takes on the possibility of multidirectionality and challenges normative ways of thinking about punctuation. More broadly, The Choreic Period asks, how do we pause? How does pausing relate to sense-making? 

Thinking about questions of time, (multi)directionality, and what it means to use rhythm to “locate oneself”, Sophie explores how Latif’s poetry might be translated to movement. Together, they invite the audience to discover their own rhythm of being.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Latif Askia Ba is a poet from Brooklyn, NY. Dancing in and out of various forms, he tries again and again to realize the music of the disabled body-mind-universe. He’s a poetry editor at Big Score. His newest collection, The Choreic Period, was published by Milkweed Editions.

Sophie Frizzell is a dancer from Charleston, South Carolina. Formally trained in ballet, she resonates with works that find beauty in the mundane and humor in unexpected places. She received her B.A. in Religious Studies from Hunter College in 2024. Sophie is also a regular contributor for Culturebot, an online publication dedicated to long-form theater and dance review.

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