delta dandi
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Ring/Shout
I started work on Ring/Shout at Hedgebrook Women Writers Colony this summer.
I am still discovering what it is/but
so far
I know it’s a jookn good time….This clip is from an excerpt of Ring/Shout
Featuring: Florinda Bryant/Performer
Sharon Bridgforth/Conductor
and the audience/Chorus: audience/Amen Corner of Griot-Gossipers: and
audience/dancers: Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Matt Richardson, Stephanie Lang and Amanda Johnston.
This staged reading was Presented by The John L. Warfield Center For African and African American Studies, Performing Blackness Series. University of Texas Austin
Sat, February 20, 2010 8:00 PM.
I’m A Book Editor
Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic
Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project
Edited by Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Lisa L. Moore, and Sharon Bridgforth
is now available for purchase!!!
My Finding Voice Facilitation Manual will be published in this book!!For information/or to purchase: CLICK HERE
For more about the Finding Voic e Facilitation Method CLICK HEREFor more about the Austin Project CLICK HERE
blood pudding
I am re-working blood pudding…
blood pudding is an inter-disciplinary theatre piece that celebrates the history of Black people in New Orleans. Set in times/then and now, blood pudding explores a landscape of magic made of spirit and blood. Memory. Prayer. Dreams. The piece is choreographed. Text is sung. A sense of the living, dead and unborn co-existing is communicated through many narrators layering languages and polyrhythmic telling. This is ritual theatre. The stage is a living altar, honoring Blackness, Indigenous people, and revolutions made of Love.
Post show opening night reception following Friday performance. Tickets $15 / $10 students
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My residency is part of a Links Hall – NPN Community Fund and Performance Residency Programs.
blood pudding was first performed in 1998, directed by Laurie Carlos at Frontera@Hyde Park Theatre in Austin, Texas. In the 1998 draft of the text, I identified blood pudding as an Oya piece. Oya is a Yoruba deity. She is the hurricane. She rules the grave yards. She is Wind. With my current excavation and deepening of the text, post Katrina, I intend blood pudding to Lift the Ancestors. To play wildly in it’s form/like Jazz. To ask: What do the Ancestors want to say. What are the untold stories in the soil, water and air? What does Oya demand of blood pudding today.
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