WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Ambrose Akinmusire—banyan seed
Mar
29
7:30 PM19:30

WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Ambrose Akinmusire—banyan seed

Ambrose Akinmusire has made a home at the crossroads of different musical forms and languages, from post-bop and avant-garde jazz to contemporary chamber music and hip-hop to singer-songwriter aesthetics.  He returns to Harlem Stage during its 40th Anniversary Season to present banyan seed.

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WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Ambrose Akinmusire—banyan seed
Mar
30
7:30 PM19:30

WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Ambrose Akinmusire—banyan seed

Ambrose Akinmusire has made a home at the crossroads of different musical forms and languages, from post-bop and avant-garde jazz to contemporary chamber music and hip-hop to singer-songwriter aesthetics.  He returns to Harlem Stage during its 40th Anniversary Season to present banyan seed.

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E-Moves: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company  – SOLD OUT!
Apr
19
7:30 PM19:30

E-Moves: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company – SOLD OUT!

Choreographer Bill T. Jones has participated in various presentations at Harlem Stage since the 1980s; in 2006, he created the Harlem Stage commission Chapel/Chapter, inaugurating the Harlem Stage Gatehouse. Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company is recognized as one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the dance-theater world.

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E-Moves: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company – SOLD OUT!
Apr
20
7:30 PM19:30

E-Moves: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company – SOLD OUT!

Choreographer Bill T. Jones has participated in various presentations at Harlem Stage since the 1980s; in 2006, he created the Harlem Stage commission Chapel/Chapter, inaugurating the Harlem Stage Gatehouse. Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company is recognized as one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the dance-theater world.

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Pianos for Duke Reimagined: Featuring Jason Moran, Abdullah Ibrahim & Friends – SOLD OUT!
Apr
26
7:30 PM19:30

Pianos for Duke Reimagined: Featuring Jason Moran, Abdullah Ibrahim & Friends – SOLD OUT!

Pianist, composer, and educator Jason Moran returns to Harlem Stage with a reimagining of Pianos For Duke, a Harlem Stage program dedicated to the music of Duke Ellington, first presented at our previous home Aaron Davis Hall in 1999. Moran performed in the ’99 program, at the time a young up-and-coming pianist, featured alongside superstars of the instrument.

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Pianos for Duke Reimagined: Featuring Jason Moran, Abdullah Ibrahim & Friends—Benefit Concert
Apr
27
7:30 PM19:30

Pianos for Duke Reimagined: Featuring Jason Moran, Abdullah Ibrahim & Friends—Benefit Concert

Join us for a BENEFIT CONCERT supporting Harlem Stage at its 40th Anniversary! Experience an intimate evening of Ellington’s music played by Jason Moran; Abdullah Ibrahim;  Bertha HopeJoanne Brackeen, and Matthew Whitaker. Plus a post-performance discussion between Moran and Ibrahim on Ellington’s significance, followed by a lively cocktail reception.

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WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Tamar-kali—The Swann, Carl Hancock Rux, Libretto
May
3
7:30 PM19:30

WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Tamar-kali—The Swann, Carl Hancock Rux, Libretto

Composer, vocalist, and performing and recording artist Tamar-kali presents performance excerpts from The Swann an opera she is developing about the life and times of William Dorsey Swann, the first known person to identify as a “queen of drag.”

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WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Tamar-kali—The Swann, Carl Hancock Rux, Libretto
May
4
7:30 PM19:30

WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Tamar-kali—The Swann, Carl Hancock Rux, Libretto

Composer, vocalist, and performing and recording artist Tamar-kali presents performance excerpts from The Swann an opera she is developing about the life and times of William Dorsey Swann, the first known person to identify as a “queen of drag.”

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E-Moves: nora chipaumire—ShebeenDUB
May
17
2:00 PM14:00

E-Moves: nora chipaumire—ShebeenDUB

Contemporary artist, choreographer, and performer nora chipaumire  a “rock star of dance” (The New Yorker) — has enlivened Harlem Stage with her revolutionary dance performances on numerous occasions. chipaumire returns to E-Moves with the New York premiere of ShebeenDUB, which transforms the historic Harlem Stage Gatehouse into a sonic and visual statement of radical black indictment of Empire.

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E-Moves: nora chipaumire—ShebeenDUB
May
18
2:00 PM14:00

E-Moves: nora chipaumire—ShebeenDUB

Contemporary artist, choreographer, and performer nora chipaumire  a “rock star of dance” (The New Yorker) — has enlivened Harlem Stage with her revolutionary dance performances on numerous occasions. chipaumire returns to E-Moves with the New York premiere of ShebeenDUB, which transforms the historic Harlem Stage Gatehouse into a sonic and visual statement of radical black indictment of Empire.

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E-Moves: Camille A. Brown & Guests—BLACK JOY
Jun
14
7:30 PM19:30

E-Moves: Camille A. Brown & Guests—BLACK JOY

First presented in E-Moves in 2004, celebrated director and choreographer Camille A. Brown returns to Harlem Stage’s flagship dance series to curate works on the theme of BLACK JOY by associate choreographers in her theater and commercial work who are pursuing their own careers in the field — Chloe Davis, Juel D. Lane, Mayte Natalio, Rickey Tripp, and Maleek Washington.

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E-Moves : Camille A. Brown & Guests—BLACK JOY
Jun
15
7:30 PM19:30

E-Moves : Camille A. Brown & Guests—BLACK JOY

First presented in E-Moves in 2004, celebrated director and choreographer Camille A. Brown returns to Harlem Stage’s flagship dance series to curate works on the theme of BLACK JOY by associate choreographers in her theater and commercial work who are pursuing their own careers in the field — Chloe Davis, Juel D. Lane, Mayte Natalio, Rickey Tripp, and Maleek Washington.

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RESCHEDULED FROM 2/23  |  Uptown Nights: An Evening of Chamber Music presented with Sugar Hill Salon & Concert Artists Guild
Mar
8
7:30 PM19:30

RESCHEDULED FROM 2/23 | Uptown Nights: An Evening of Chamber Music presented with Sugar Hill Salon & Concert Artists Guild

As part of its Uptown Nights music series, Harlem Stage collaborates with Harlem-based Sugar Hill Salon — one of the first chamber music series and artistic collectives that centers on black and brown woodwind artistry in classical music — and Concert Artists Guild.

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WaterWorks Emerging Artists Showcase – SOLD OUT!
Dec
9
7:30 PM19:30

WaterWorks Emerging Artists Showcase – SOLD OUT!

In this culminating WaterWorks Emerging Artists program work-in-progress showcase, Harlem Stage presents works by the 2023 WaterWorks Emerging Artists cohort: interdisciplinary performing artist and painter Shantelle Courvoisier Jackson; singer/songwriter Hannah Lemmons aka LEMMONS; choreographer and dancer Bobby Morgan; interdisciplinary artist, composer, and pianist Mary Prescott; and trumpeter and composer Kalí Rodríguez-Peña.

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Uptown Nights Latin Music Series: Yasser Tejeda & DJ Sabine Blaizin
Dec
1
8:00 PM20:00

Uptown Nights Latin Music Series: Yasser Tejeda & DJ Sabine Blaizin

Harlem Stage presents Afro-Dominican bandleader and guitarist Yasser Tejeda performing a combination of traditional folkloric music, jazz, rock, and Caribbean rhythms. Keeping us moving before and after the performance, DJ Sabine Blaizin (Oyasound) will spin Global House and Soul, Afrotech, Afrobeat, and other diasporic Afro-Caribbean dance music with a nod to her Haitian roots.

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In the Court of the Conqueror by george emilio sanchez
Nov
3
7:30 PM19:30

In the Court of the Conqueror by george emilio sanchez

In the Court of the Conqueror features a solo performance by george emilio sanchez and visual storytelling by his collaborator, visual artist Patty Ortiz. Together, they confront the history of how the U.S. Supreme Court has diminished the Tribal Sovereignty of Native Nations.

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E-Moves: Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE-SOLD OUT!
Oct
14
7:30 PM19:30

E-Moves: Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE-SOLD OUT!

First presented at our previous home, Aaron Davis Hall, in 1998, Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE returns for two nights of not-to-be-missed performances featuring dances that are “pure Brown: otherworldly, charged, urgent in their undulating sweep and unaffectedly fervent” (The New York Times).

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E-Moves: Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE - SOLD OUT!
Oct
13
7:30 PM19:30

E-Moves: Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE - SOLD OUT!

First presented at our previous home, Aaron Davis Hall, in 1998, Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE returns for two nights of not-to-be-missed performances featuring dances that are “pure Brown: otherworldly, charged, urgent in their undulating sweep and unaffectedly fervent” (The New York Times).

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SOLD OUT! History and Cultural Identity as Inspiration
Jun
28
7:30 PM19:30

SOLD OUT! History and Cultural Identity as Inspiration

Ahead of its premiere on July 5th at Lincoln Center, Tamar-kali discusses the inspiration behind Sea Island Symphony: Red Rice Cotton and Indigo, her orchestral love letter to her roots in conversation with artists who share the legacy, land stewardship and language of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor.

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Harlem International Film Festival
  |  Film Premiere: 'The Sacred Place Between Earth and Space'
May
21
4:45 PM16:45

Harlem International Film Festival
 | Film Premiere: 'The Sacred Place Between Earth and Space'

A documentary that captures the mid-pandemic culmination of Harlem Stage’s Afrofuturism series featuring Craig Harris’ Nocturnal Nubian Ball for Conscientious Ballers and Cultural Shot Callers. The film is a mix of behind the scenes, concert, and historical footage that highlights Craig Harris’ reunion and performances with legendary free jazz instrumentalist and fellow Sun Ra Arkestra Member, Marshall Allen.

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Black Arts Movement: Examined Part VII—Then and Now Conference Day 3
May
20
10:00 AM10:00

Black Arts Movement: Examined Part VII—Then and Now Conference Day 3

The final day of the Black Arts Movement: Then And Now Conference has a rich offering: a screening of Portrait of Jason, a discussion about the Afro-Latinx relationship with the Black Arts Movement, an analysis of historian Harold Cruse's controversial book, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, closing statements by Carl Hancock Rux, and a concert curated Carl Hancock Rux, Tavia Nyong’o, and Vernon Reid.

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Black Arts Movement: Examined Part VII—Then and Now Conference Day 2
May
19
10:00 AM10:00

Black Arts Movement: Examined Part VII—Then and Now Conference Day 2

The 2nd day of the Black Arts Movement Conference begins with a discussion on Black Masculinity, moderated by Jonathan McCrory, a discussion on the feminist perspective of the Black Arts Movement with Angela Davis, Nona Hendryx, and Toshi Reagon, a conversation between Carl Hancock Rux and Sonia Sanchez, and a closing performance featuring Henry Threadgill, Craig Taborn, and Dafnis Prieto.

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