blood pudding
blood pudding is a interdisciplinary theatre piece that celebrates the history of Black people in New Orleans. Through blood memories of a gurl born in Congo Square, blood pudding explores a landscape of magic made of Ancestral Love. In this polyrhythmic telling the blues is sacred. Narrators are holy. Indigenous people are honored. The drum shapes reality. This is ritual/jazz theatre.
blood pudding was presented in NYC’S SummerStage Festival!!!
Written by Sharon Bridgforth.
Directed & Choreographed by Baraka de Soleil!.
Helga Davis – Composer
Written by Sharon Bridgforth.
Directed & Choreographed by Baraka de Soleil!.
Helga Davis – Composer
Featuring: Ted Cruz, Helga Davis, Baraka de Soleil, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Monica McIntyre, Pam Patrick, and Francine Sheffield. With Negaysha Walcott.
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bull-jean On Stage
Q Ragsdale received a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Award from NPN, The South Dallas Cultural Center and DiverseWorks to adapt the bull-jean stories.
Q’s the bull jean stories will be a multi-media performance that includes interviews with multi-generational bull-jeans. It will incorporate both a live performance and an online televised performance, giving it a life beyond its two performance venues.
The work will premiere at the South Dallas Cultural Center 10/15 – 10/17 2010.
The DiverseWorks show TBA. For more CLICK HERE
delta dandi
To check out all the lots of info on delta dandi CLICK HERE
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
with the audience as Chorus (Amen Corner Griot Gossipers):
plus 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.
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