![Gregory Maqoma, Exit/Exist, 2012. Photo by John Hogg, courtesy of Vuyani Dance Theatre.](https://www.pewcenterarts.org/sites/default/files/styles/lg_640x512_webp/public/person_preview_image/du2012_02_maqoma_082.jpg.webp?itok=WORF4GBm)
Excerpt from The Sentient Archive: Choreographer Gregory Maqoma on Expressing Cultural Identity
Gregory Maqoma’s Sentient Archive essay “Exit/Exist – Embodiment,” the artist examines how he translates his ancestral history into performance, rejecting a “conceptual” framework for which descriptions supersede the work itself and instead embracing a historically driven approach.