Dzidzor (Jee-Jaw) is a Ga-Ewe folklore, performing artist, author and entrepreneur. Dzidzor’s style of call and response has reimagined poetry and story-telling as a way to include the audience in an experience to challenge, inspire, and encourage self beyond traditional forms. Dzidzor weaves her love for spoken word, storytelling, mixing and collaging sound within her performance. Dzidzor’s ability to sound collage sound bites from familiar voices, re-telling stories, the sound of nature, and the use of percussion to curate a space of wonder, imagination, and confusion.

Born in Italy, to Ghanaian parents and raised in North Carolina. She’s immersed herself in merging cultures from the South to Ghanian culture. She’s a vessel chosen to deliver a message through writing, performance, and community organizing. Her performance art demystifies the role of an artist being watched and invites the audience to “perform” and be a part of the performance. Such as the Black Cotton Club and workshops that she facilitates. Dzidzor’s work is full of curiosity and questions surrounding the ideas of God, community and church, home, blackness, and identity. While acknowledging those ignorantly consumed by the impact of a system that hasn’t benefited black and brown folx. She is often exploring how oppressed bodies can release internalized oppression in the mind and body.

Dzidzor is currently working on a project called, ‘Wilderness’, an experimental performance piece that explores what it means to be black, living, and woman in relation to God and the teachings of religion to black women. Dzidzor has been named a ‘rhythm architect’ by the legendary Knoel Scott from the Sun Ra Arkestra.