Sometimes your tongue gets cut out of your mouth at birth. Sometimes your mother gives you salt instead of water. Sometimes you dye your clothes with someone else's clay. Sometimes you mistake being a woman with being everyone else at once.

MOTHER/JAW is a raw contemporary dance work exploring the rites of passage into young womanhood. MOTHER/JAW is a raw contemporary dance work connecting young mixed blood to old stolen blood. MOTHER/JAW is the ritual of moulding a new tongue from many earth's.
MOTHER/JAW is every young woman's jaw filled with their mother's teeth.
MOTHER/JAW is a she-mongrel.

Inspired by Grace Taylor's poetry collection -'Afakasi Speaks'.
Choreography by Jahra 'Rager' Wasasala and Grace Woollett and music by Addison Chase.