About me
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.
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.