Featuring an intergenerational and multidisciplinary cast of Black dancers and musicians, this offering to the continuum celebrates the joy and sacred power of the Black experience to each artist and the ensemble.
Barnes reaches back nearly 100 years, making visible the connections between the past and today's Black dance expressions: House, Hip-Hop, and more. The New York Times said of the Bessie Award-winning Barnes: "Barnes is especially extraordinary for the way the past and the present can ... view more »
Featuring an intergenerational and multidisciplinary cast of Black dancers and musicians, this offering to the continuum celebrates the joy and sacred power of the Black experience to each artist and the ensemble.
Barnes reaches back nearly 100 years, making visible the connections between the past and today’s Black dance expressions: House, Hip-Hop, and more. The New York Times said of the Bessie Award-winning Barnes: “Barnes is especially extraordinary for the way the past and the present can pass through her.” Her facilitation of the casts’ exploration of their relationships to Jazz and its progenies through mind-bending musicality spectacular athleticism, and boundless joy, shine through the work’s expansive and riveting choreography.
The Jazz Continuum celebrates music and dances from across the diaspora, with works drawn from Harlem, Chicago, New Orleans, Cuba, Angola, and Brazil. It conjures the spirits of Black dance elders, including Norma Miller Frankie Manning, Earl “Snakehips” Tucker, Marie Bryant, and Marjory Smarth, and many others. Be prepared to witness and celebrate the life and lives of the continuum…
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