Work samples

  • SAFRA (dance) at Current Space • Baltimore • August 7, 2024

    Building a Sanctuary with Shaawan Francis Keahna (synth, ambient, samples) and Bryita Herrera (charango, pan flute, bells) at Current Space in Baltimore City MD. Safra is a multimedia artists who focuses primarily on movement and sound art. She is originally from Ethiopia and currently based in Baltimore City. His work consists of using biomimicry as away to persevere, continue and innovate the dance and music practices that come from her indigenous backgrounds. The practice of Biomimicry contains the ways he has been able to maintain the relationship of mirroring the natural world and realms of the unseen in order to keep life in balance. Safra is a sound carrier and a world builder who uses storytelling as a way to usher humanity into a Matrifocal future.

     

  • SAFRA (dance) ft. Rafiki Morris reading "Genetic Insanity" with Maridian Skky (drums)

    Safra interprets a short story written by Rafiki Morris based on true events through improv dance while Meridian Skky empowers the sonic essences of words and movements through the drum/djembe

     

    Exhibition Time Longer than Rope

    November 16th 2024

    NomuNomu Gallery Baltimore, MD

  • SAFRA (dance) at the Compound • Baltimore • October 26, 2024

    October 26, 2024

    The Compound 

    Baltimore, MD

     

    Safra improv dances to original composition with live accompaniment by Bryita Herrera on pan flute and charango. 

  • BMA Violet Hour: SAFRA/Primitive Tongues

     

    Join us on the Museum’s front steps for a live BMA Violet Hour inspired by Women Behaving Badly: 400 Years of Power & Protest. Experience an original sound art and dance performance by SAFRA/Primitive Tongues, based on her ongoing project Matrimonial.

     

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About Safra

Baltimore City  

SAFRA is a multimedia holistic art form. They practice the art of indigenous storytelling in order to convey the multitude of  worlds they exist in. SAFRA is the shapeshifter, a hybrid of “GodHeads”. She transforms herself into her primordial state, her first incarnation in which she embodies the divine trans dark feminine. Their movements are an expression of the occult and sacred forms of life beyond the human world and allows herself to not just… more

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  • ​​Matrimonial: The Gateway to a Matrifocal Fortress

    An experimental art film that showcases a week long self-documentation, interactive installation at NomuNomu gallery in Baltimore City, Maryland. The original homelands of the Piscataway, Susquehanna and Naticoke territories.

     

    I enter into the valves of my Primordial Heart

    I gather the sonic messages from quasar canals, 

    I plant their utterances into the soil 

    and watch their power rise above ground again. 

    Over the course of my human lifeline my intentions will brew in the core of the Earth.

    A matrifocal future is among us.

    Where Earth is our primary partner

    And our relatives who exist in all walks of life 

    offer us wisdom to help us along the way.

    An arrangement of sacred hymns and sigil-like movements are used to awaken the ancestral knowledge that lives within me and to rejuvenate the land around us.

    We will return into attunement to Natural Law/ Mni Wiconi

  • Black Wind and the Golden Purifier

    a short film about a young celestial girl from Sirius was called down to Planet Earth to stop a curse that was implanted on the Land of the Long White Cloud from the Reptilian Regime. They placed a curse that in 2025 half of Aotearoa will sink underwater. In order to stop this evil curse from the Reptilian Rigime this young girl must go through her rights of passage through her father so she can gain ancient knowledge and wisdom to properly conduct the ritual dance to the ocean...

     

    music by primitive tongues: soul ties die (unreleased)

    Cast:

    black wind: Fellis McGuire

    golden purifier: Malia McGuire

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