Category: projects

At the Crossroads: Activating the Intersection of Art and Justice

From At the Crossroads: Activating the Intersection of Art and Justice on Saturday, December 9, 2017, with the audience-interactive performance “And, Ain’t I a Woman: A Long Table Conversation and Installation.”

marcella davis, amanda chestnut, mara ahmed and gaynelle wethers

Two screenings of A Thin Wall in Bangalore

Two #screenings of #AThinWall are coming up in #Bangalore #India:

– on April 6, 6pm, at #PartlyPurple, an #alternative #art #space [D1 276 SFS 407 Yelahanka New Town, Bangalore 560064, India ]

– on April 8, 5pm, at #NationalGalleryofModernArt [Manekyavelu Mansion, 49 Palace Road, Bangalore 560052, India]

Co-Producer Surbhi Dewan will be in attendance for Q&A. Join her!

I Wanna Be Ready by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Using African-American spirituals, song-sermons, gospel songs and holy blues, Alvin Ailey’s Revelations fervently explores the places of deepest grief and holiest joy in the soul.

Ailey has said that one of America’s richest treasures is the African-American cultural heritage —“sometimes sorrowful, sometimes jubilant, but always hopeful.” This enduring classic is a tribute to that tradition, born out of the choreographer’s “blood memories” of his childhood in rural Texas and the Baptist Church.

Today marks the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Company’s 60th year. This is a video performance of “I Wanna Be Ready” from ‘Revelations’ performed by Matthew Rushing.

From Citizen: “Some years there exists a wanting to escape…” by Claudia Rankine

My new film about racism in America is inspired by Claudia Rankine’s book “Citizen: An American Lyric.”

Here’s “Some years there exists a wanting to escape” from the same book:

You are not sick, you are injured—

you ache for the rest of life.

How to care for the injured body,

the kind of body that can’t hold
the content it is living?

And where is the safest place when that place
must be someplace other than in the body?

More here.