ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCE
April 14, 7:30PM
April 15, 7:30PM
Live/Reserved Seating
Priority Seating: $35
General Seating: $25
Part V: DANCE
For over 20 years, Harlem Stage’s signature dance series, E-Moves, has brought together phenomenal choreographers, artists, musicians, and dancers of color to showcase their choreographic visions and pull audiences into an exploration of movement and message. The Black Arts Movement: Examined series inspires this year’s program, curated by Jerome Robbins Award-winning dancer, choreographer, and Harlem Stage alum Stefanie Batten Bland, and will feature works in conversation with the Black Arts Movement.
Join us for an evening showcasing choreographers experimenting with and responding to the legacy of the past while creating dances that lean into the future.
Performer artists include Jamal Abrams, Kayla Farrish, and Ogemdi Ude..
Supported, in part, by the Mellon Foundation, Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, and Harkness Foundation for Dance.
Black Arts Movement: Examined is supported by the Mellon Foundation.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCES
Photo by Justin Williams
Jamal Abrams’ SAB & The Gatekeeper explores the continuous conflict with self. Learn the origin story of SAB, Abrams’ shadow self, who he sees as his protector and guide sent to help him navigate the world. SAB is light, truth, and acceptance. Through fantastical world-making and experimental play, we get to the root of SAB’s biggest dilemma: did I do this…….or did you?
Photo by Sarah Annie Navarrete
Kayla Farrish’s Myths until you hold me, imagines and brings into resolution herself as a Black Woman, becoming visceral, solid, and human. With urgency, power, and transparency, the work delves into socio-political structures, the guts of Black Women’s experiences as people, and addresses American lineages that reverberate today.
Photo By Maria Baranova
Ogemdi Ude’s ok, let's try this again, adapts remnants of past works addressing grief and loss, creating a character that exists both internally and externally. This character offers an outlet for reckoning with who one becomes when their personal life and creative life become about death.
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