Bridgforth is Winner of the 2010 Esteem Award
and is listed in the
Campus Pride 2009 “HOT LIST”:
Top 25 Favorite LGBT Artists, Speakers, Lecturers, Music Acts, Comedians, Activists & Much More!
To see the HOT LIST: CLICK HERE
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PERFORMANCE
Touring Party: 6
Length of Residency Varies
Includes: Open rehearsals and Community Dialogues.
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Touring Party: 7. Plus local musicians and dancers will be cast.
Length of Residency Varies
Includes: Open rehearsals and Community Dialogues.
If you are interested in obtaining the right to produce my work please CONTACT ME
Like Jazz
a staged reading
Jazz/blues/prayer poems & performance stories
written and presented by Sharon Bridgforth
Running Time: 30 Min reading plus Audience Talk Back.
Maximum number of participants: OPEN
Type of space: Open
Equipment Needs: Music Stand. Standing Mic. (depending on how big the space is). If possible, it would be great to project images (from Bridgforth’s MacBook or from your system)
Her reading was powerful and moving. She is an honest artist with a charismatic stage presence. She is also generous… Carol Guess Assistant Professor, English; Western Washington University
Bridgforth will engage in an open dialogue with community members. Poets/dancers/spoken word artists/hip hop artists/performance artists/visual artists/musicians of all experience levels….people that do not easily fit in box, artists that do not flow in mainstream culture, people that are not hooked into systems of privilege and support. This conversation will focus on making art, breaking form, making a living as an artist, using art as a tool for change, the tradition of the personal as political.
Running Time: 1 hour.
Maximum number of participants: OPEN
Type of space: Open
“While this aesthetic leans heavily on elements of jazz including improvisation, George Lewis’s notion of the Afrological, and “the break,” it also reveals the modern dance idioms, the blues sensibilities, the performance art antecedents, and the ancestral calling that situates a theatrical jazz aesthetic as a distinctive performance genre”.…Dr. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, JAZZ, ASE, AND THE POWER OF THE PRESENT MOMENT: THE JAZZ AESTHETIC IN THE CREATION OF THEATRICAL WORK (forth coming book).
Developing The Artist’s Practice
FINDING VOICE WORKSHOP
For Women and Queer Identified Emerging Artists
Facilitated by Sharon Bridgforth
This is a perfect opportunity to bring together a diverse group of women and/or queer emerging artists that are interested in using art as vehicle for social justice. Through the power the personal/participants will be encouraged to create long-term on-going relationships as they create new work, strengthen their vision for their communities and deepen their personal artist practice.
Bridgforth’s Finding Voice Manual is published in 2010 in a University Texas Press book titled, The Austin Project Archive: Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic, edited by Omi Osun Olomo/Joni L. Jones, Ph.D., Lisa L. Moore, Ph.D. and Bridgforth. For more about Finding Voice CLICK HERE
Suggested Workshop length: 15 hour minimum. The more time the better.
I.E. A Master Class, Semester Course, Week-end Retreat etc.
Maximum number of participants: 10 but can vary. For Women and/or queer identified people. Must be over 18 years of age.
Workshop space: Should be private, quiet, comfortable.
Water, coffee, fruit and juice for participants recommended .
“I am just a simple Colombian woman, with a heart bigger than the moon, who loves peace but has emotions are more powerful than a volcano exploding and whose passion can paint the world. The word is my life and my writing was reborn with the unique wisdom and guidance of my Maestra Sharon Bridgforth. My language is Spanish but she could understood my need to put out in poetry, short stories and now the book I’m writing all those vivencias. She knew that it wasn’t about the language. It was about my bones and womb. And through her workshops I could finally start writing from that place. I gave birth to “Hoy Corte Mi Esperanza” after my last workshop, “Writing from the Bones”, with my Maestra Sharon Bridgforth in 2005. This story is in eight parts. This is two of the eight. So.. my place, the one where my words live and that only I know has Colombian flavor. And believe me it’s sooo tasty”….Raquel Ruiz
For booking and additional information go to the Contact page on this site.
Bridgforth with allgo’s ROOTED: Queer Artists Group with Our Beloved Elder raulrsalinas at Resistencia Bookstore.
