Savanna Morgan (she/her) is a poet, musician, and performance artist from East Texas. She came to Berlin in 2020 to earn a Master’s in Performance Studies, and has since joined the feminist collective and art publisher, Archive Ensemble where she is an editor of anti-colonial texts and curator of poetry-performance practices. Her recent publications include debut poetry book, “cow tripe” (Hopscotch Editions, 2022),“Parabolis Virtualis” (Querverlag, 2023), “Encounters: Embodied Practices” (Archive Books, 2023) and “Togetherward” (Archive Books, 2023). Her performances, ranging from concerts to choreo-poems, have been presented at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (The Whole Life, 2022, O Quilombismo, 2023), Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien (Freistaat Barackia, 2021), Gropius Bau (GABAN, 2022) , ChertLuedde (Bungalow Berlin, 2022), VillaRomana Florenz, Saavy Contemporary (Weaving the Inner Bark Festival, 2023), TanzFabrik (Ko Shebeen, 2021), amongst other socio-cultural institutions. Blues for Mrs, a film written and performed by Savanna and directed by Dr, Anton Juan, recently had its Berlin premiere at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse in January 2024. Savanna graduated with a Bachelor’s in Film, Television, and Theatre from the University of Notre Dame in 2020. Her creative process is very much rooted in time, place, and memory of home in the North American South. Her work aims to foster conversations within the Black diaspora centering on its histories, triumphs, joy, and healing.

As of April 2024