delta dandi
delta dandi is a National Performance Network Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Women & Their Work, in partnership with Center On Halsted and the National Performance Network. Major contributors of the National Performance Network are Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: npnweb.org
The Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation awarded $5,000 in the support of the development of delta dandi. Sheree L. Ross: Consciousness Patron of the Arts awarded $500 in support of delta dandi.
Bridgforth will be facilitating a delta dandi MASTER CLASS at Scripps College. MORE ABOUT THE MASTER CLASS
Austin’s Queer People of Color Organization-allgo,The Center For African and African American Studies, UT Austin,and Freedom Train Productions are supporting the development of delta dandi
a staged reading of delta dandi was featured 8/6 & 8/7 2008 7PM during
Freedom Train Productions
Fire! New Play Festival 2008 8/6 - 8/21
@ South Oxford Space
138 South Oxford Street in Ft Greene, BK
The cast for this staged reading includes: *Maisha Azadi, Courtney Ellis, *Denise Lock, and Andre St Clair Thompson
Festival programming information
*Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
Staged Readings of delta dandi will be presented at Scripps College 10/08 and Center for African and African American Studies, UT Austin supported by allgo 10/08. delta dandi will premiere 1/09 at Women & Their Work and will be produced 3/09 by the Center On Halsted. For details see:
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About delta dandi...
delta dandi is a Conjure. A weave of monologues, chants, choral tellings, blood memory and song delta dandi asks “How does collective grief and trauma inform the African American experience?” delta dandi invokes the Transmigration of a Spirit’s journey as she walks towards Transformation and Love.
i don’t know how to die so i just go along. carry all these things. all these things. till once in the black/blue of day i jump. i jump where the waters meet. i jump. cold cold cut me. i jump. pray/carry me to the ocean. please. maybe i find my mama there. i jump. go under. come up. go under. come up. jump. jump. jump. can’t float down. the water won’t take me. again again again i jumping till look see. there right there a woman tall tall naked and shining in the water stand smile smiling down at me in the water. i run out. run stand under giant tree with weeping arms. look through bending branches. still still. no breathing. can’t move. can’t turn head. can’t close eyes. no look away. the woman tall tall naked and shining in the water stand. stop laughing. stare. stare. stare. stare telling me something
i don’t know what……. delta dandi Copyright (c) 2008 Sharon Bridgforth
A Few Things I’m Reading Regarding Inspiration For delta dandi:
To Be or Not to Bop Memoirs by Dizzy Gillespie
Morning Glory a biography of Mary Lou Williams by Linda Dahl
Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke (Ellington) by JOHN EDWARD HASSE
Lena by Lena Horne and Richard Schickel
At The Bottom Of The River by Jamaica Kincaid
A Few Things That I’m listening to:
NPR Jazz Profiles
JazzCorner Interviews (podcast subscription avail. on iTunes)
Black, Brown, & Beige by Duke Ellington
Mary Lou’s Mass by Mary Lou Williams
Shave ‘Em Dry by Lucille Bogan
Where I’m Hangn:
Jazz Museum In Harlem
The Schomburg
In coffee shops/with Loved Ones…in Dreams
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