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delta dandi 1/09

Women & Their Work in partnership with The National Performance Network and Sharon Bridgforth presented *delta dandi at the Long Center Rollins Studio Theatre 1/9 & 1/10 2009 8PM in Austin, Texas with support from the Long Center’s Catalyst 8 Boost Award, allgo (A Statewide Queer People of Color Organization), The John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas Austin, Austin Script Works, and The Rude Mechanicals.

Writer/Conductor/Producer Sharon Bridgforth
Featuring: Composer/Conductor/Performer-Helga Davis; Choreographer/Conductor/Performer-Baraka de Soleil; Florinda Bryant & Sonja Perryman; with Monique Cortez, Andrea Edgerson, Karla Legaspy, Leigh Gaymon-Jones and Azure D. Osborne-Lee. Set Designer: Leilah Stewart. Costumer: Miramar Dichoso. Technical Director: Tramaine Berryhill. Dramaturge: Jen Margulies. For more info CLICK HERE

Film Maker Q Ragsdale created this delta dandi promotional short for us….Bless you Q!

delta dandi Honeypot & dem
(Filmed by Q Ragsdale )

delta dandi The Veil/Ring Shout
(Filmed by Q Ragsdale )

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SIPPN ON INK

Blog Talk Radio Hosted by Kat Williams
To download or listen to my 3/4 interview CLICK HERE

KAZI 88.7 Austin

LISTEN to an excerpt from a 10/10/08 interview on ZUMBI/The John L. Warfield Center for African & African American Studies show on KAZI. Dr. Shirley Thompson Host, Anoa Monsho Producer. The actual show ran 30 mins. Thats Austin’s own 3 Jazz Collective playing in the background.

Scripps College Talk

LISTEN to a short excerpt (about delta dandi) from a one hour talk that I gave on 9/18/08 at Scripps College as part of the Mallott Commons Lunch Lecture Series. You can hear the entire talk at ScrippsCast

bloomingOut Radio Interview

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The StoryCorps Griot Initiative

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Online Interviews/Articles/Reviews

Check Me On AfterEllen.com. I am Grateful to Cheryl Coward for THIS wonderful article!
To Read CLICK HERE

READ a review of The love conjure/blues Text Installation written by Abe Louise Young

READ an interview on Magic Makers/A record of the lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered & Two-Spirit Artists of Color by RedBone Press author Ana-Maurine Lara

READ an interview on Fund For Women Artists

READ an Austin Chronicle interview written by Suzy Spencer.

VIDEO

SAY WHAT? I am on Episode 3 of Filmmaker Q Ragsdale’s webcast series SAY WHAT?

Omi.jpg
VIEW clips from the making of The love conjure/blues Text Installation. love conjure/blues is a performance/novel published by RedBone Press. Pictured: Omi Osun Olomo/Dr. Joni L. Jones Performing The love conjure/blues Text Installation at The BlacKTino Performance Festival at Northwestern University.

blood pudding
VIEW clips from blood pudding. Written by Sharon Bridgforth. Directed by Laurie Carlos. Pictured: Florinda Bryant, Zell Miller, 111, Stacy Robinson, Renita Martin, Djola Branner. Photo by Bret Brookshire

root wy'mn
VIEW clips of the root wy’mn theatre company. From 1993 - 1998 Bridgforth worked as Founder, Writer, Artistic Director for the root wy’mn theatre company, with Lori Wilson as company manager. Pictured…the original root wy’mn theatre company, 1993: Anoa Monsho, Sonja Parks, Arriama Matlock-Abdullah & Kaci Fannin. Bridgforth, Writer/Artistic Director. Photo credit: Rita DeBellis.