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DIANE EXAVIER EACH BODY REMAINS A MIRACLE A continuation of Each Body Is a Miracle (Haiti Cultural Exchange, 2017) and Each Body Is (Still) a Miracle (No Longer Empty, 2019), Each Body Remains a Miracle is a play in retreat and an exploration of health and wellness in Brooklyn. Each Body Remains a Miracle reflects …

My essay, Florence Delva, named after the grandmother from my play Bernarda’s Daughters, is available to read online and seen in person (by appointment) at the Old Stone House

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Each Body Is (Still) a Miracle

Presented by No Longer Empty’s Curatorial Lab, Each Body Is (Still) a Miracle continues the work of the 2017 project, Each Body Is a Miracle (commissioned by Haiti Cultural Exchange). A social praxis, a play in retreat, an exploration of health and wellness in East Flatbush, Each Body is (Still) a Miracle reflects on questions of health and living in East Flatbush through the lens of a new play-in-progress, Bernarda’s Daughters, which tells the story of five sisters living in the heat of mourning their father, their neighborhood, and what they thought they knew about their lives. Set just steps away from Kings County Hospital, Bernarda’s Daughters is a reflection on a rapidly changing neighborhood through the voices and bodies of people it seems there is increasingly no longer room for.

Each Body Is (Still) a Miracle is a dramaturgical intervention that takes time to acknowledge, rehearse, and celebrate practices of local aliveness in three parts: an honest reportage in the essay Adelva Called Adela; a fact sharing nouvelle in the instant book By Numbers By Miracles; and a meditative exercise in adornment and commitment in the floral crown crafting workshop Petit Plasaj.

While the play gets written, life must be lived as Each Body Is (Still) a Miracle attempts to share something with a neighborhood that has offered so much creative inspiration. How do we keep alive what this world is so quick to lay to rest? How do we live when constantly changing environmental factors make it so complicated to do so? How do we remember walking down blocks where houses are razed every other day? How do we care for our neighbors when the amenities of new construction seduce tenants into exceedingly more private life?

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Community Crafting: A Story

One small, quiet boy, with skin as dark as my father’s entered the room. He ate a few cookies before mumbling, "I want to make a flower." I obliged his request by placing wire around his head, fitting him for a crown, not daring to pretend he would ever be a king. I showed him how to attach the flowers and he was set on his way. He quietly worked on his floral crown for about 45 minutes before he finished in silence and filled up his snack plate with more cheese puffs. I remarked how wonderful his crown looked and held up a compact mirror for him to look into. He stared at his reflection, so satisfied and happy with what he had created and how it was resting on his head. I asked him if he made it with a wish in mind. He nodded yes.

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