ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCES
May 4, 7:30PM
May 6, 7:30PM
Live/Reserved Seating
General Seating: $25
Bessie and Herb Alpert Award-winning dancer, choreographer, and Harlem Stage WaterWorks Established Artist, nia love, and her collaborators present UNDERcurrents. This multi-media performance and research platform invites audiences to probe the seam between catastrophic history and quotidian memory and tend the textures of generational care. It pivots on the question, “What remains of the Middle Passage as force, gesture, and affect?”
These queries are explored through the thematic elements of water and doors. The point of departure for captive Africans into the Middle Passage is described as “the door of no return.” Conjuring the continual resonance of this world-making and breaking threshold, UNDERcurrents is a participatory audience experience with an immersive installation that is activated by performance.
Join us at Harlem Stage for nia love’s powerful project, UNDERcurrents.
Commissioned by Harlem Stage through its WaterWorks Established Artists Program and supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Thompson Family Foundation, and the Leonard & Robert Weintraub Family Fund. Supported by a development residency at Chelsea Factory. The development of UNDERcurrents was made possible, in part, by the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) at Florida State University.
Artists:
nia love, Director/Creator/Movement Collaborator
Antoine Roney, Composer/Musician
Emanuel Ruffler, Composer/Musician
Jeremiah Ka’lab, Composer/Musician
Kojo Roney, Composer/Musician
Cyan Hunter, Movement Collaborator
Diana Uribe, Movement Collaborator
j. bouey, Movement Collaborator
Jesse Phillips-Fein, Movement Collaborator
Jessica Ziegler, Movement Collaborator
Lela Aisha Jones, Movement Collaborator
Makeda Lily Love-Roney, Movement Collaborator
Marco Farroni, Movement Collaborator
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