There Is Something In Her Blood
Synead Cidney Nichols
LEIMAY PRESENTING SERIES SUMMER/FALL 2025: OUTSIGHT
~An abstract improvisational movement piece~
“There Is Something In Her Blood” is an abstract improvisational movement piece on liberation and the human’s relentless journey in search of it. We are often told how we must be in liberation and what it is supposed to be whether it’s a baby, a husband, a big house, a nice car, marriage, and more. TISIHB asks us to relinquish what we know and consider liberation to look like and open up to what liberation feels like.
Documentation
An afternoon of performance featuring works by LEIMAY Incubator Program alumni and community members — a group of local and international artists working within movement-based practices.
Saturday August 30th:
Shira Kagan-Shafman – Tethered
Emilija Berga – Revisit
Sylvain Souklaye – A Tipping Point
Sunday August 31st:
Kanami Kusajima – Wind
Synead Cidney Nichols – There Is Something In Her Blood
Mehrnam Rastegari & Julia Kolakova – Persian music and dance
Object Identifier
AMP.PRG.2025.7000.5Year Created
2025Date Recorded
20250831Language
EnglishCurated Filters
Space / Location
Premiere Venue
Dorothy Strelsin Memorial Community GardenAugust 30-31, 2025
174 Suffolk Street, Lower East Side, NY
Synead is a queer poly-disciplinary performance artist whose motivation is deeply rooted in her quest for freedom and the advancement of queer, black and indigenous women+. Through her interdisciplinary studies of black radical feminist theories, experimental theater-making, & movement-based healing practices, she strives towards self-actualization as we collectively rebel against oppressive patriarchal ideologies.
Photos by Benja Thompson
OUTSIGHT is a performance series presented by LEIMAY in partnership with the New York Restoration Project. It features public performances by international and local artists working within areas of dance, theater, performance art, experimental music, and butoh. Most OUTSIGHT artists have been part of the LEIMAY Incubator Program which provides them with process-focused resources. The performances are set within one of NYRP’s community gardens.
OUTSIGHT is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.
This year, one OUTSIGHT artist is proudly sponsored by Studio Birdhaus. Since 2012, Studio Birdhaus has served as a platform for sharing embodied practice through storytelling and performance & visual arts.
