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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.

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    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
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    For more about the Finding Voic e Facilitation Method CLICK HERE

    For 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.

    There will be a workshop production of blood pudding Featuring: Misty DeBerry,
    K. Bradford, Jano Layne, Erica Mott, Ni’Ja Whitson, and Nyx.
    at Links Hall: 12/18/09 & 12/19/09 8PM.

    On 12/20/09 7PM the performers will present excerpts of their own solo works – created during Walk With Me: a mentorship program that I facilitated during my residency at Links Hall.

    Post show opening night reception following Friday performance. Tickets $15 / $10 students
    For More CLICK HERE
    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.

    To view clips from blood pudding directed by Laurie Carlos in 1998 CLICK HERE
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    Art Work by Daniel Alexander Jones

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