Bronx Gothic is a fictive autobiographical invocation of the minds and bodies of two 6th-grade girls on the verge of adolescence in the mid-1980s. Drawing inspiration from Victorian-era novels and West African griot storytellers, Okpokwasili gives vivid physical force to the girls’ charged relationship, revealed with unflinching honesty through their sex-saturated hand-passed notes. As memories surge with a potency that threatens to break the body, Bronx Gothic conjures a darkly powerful tale of sexual discovery and intimate entwinings in the outer boroughs of New York City. Originally performed by Okwui Okpokwasili, choreographer, dancer and performer Wanjiru Kamuyu now embodies the piece with a new energy. Through a combination of movement, songs and written correspondence, Bronx Gothic deals with the universal experience of a body in transformation. How do any of us contend with the multiple conditions that are always present in one body?