Anna Deveare Smith and Donald Byrd talk A Rap on Race DB: So the first question—and I don’t want to do the interview, I think, as somebody who is not vested in it in some way because that’s kind of impossible. ADS: Yes, and not uh, not true. DB: In your usual process...
Notes for: MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE DANCE FESTIVAL RAMBUNCTIOUS 2.0: A Festival of Music and Dance…Continued + DANCE, DANCE, DANCE “Black history doesn’t only belong to African Americans; it belongs to all Americans. It is a travesty that most Americans...
The Minstrel Show Revisited is difficult… It is difficult because it complicates our thinking It is difficult because it is disruptive It is difficult because it confronts It is difficult because it makes us race-conscious in a way that is not comfortable or easy It...
This is the time of year when one performance season is transitioning to the next. It is also a time that Company dancers depart for new or just different lives. Often during this time I find myself reflecting back on the events of the past season, the highs and the...
In the latter part of the 20th Century a few stage directors, notable Peter Sellars, began to look at the cantata as potential theatrical material. By the beginning of this century we began to see these staged cantata pop up on various stages across the US and...
