An excerpt from delta dandi featuring HoneyPot & dem will be in the December 2009 issue of the L.A. Review…details soon come….
Queer/of African descent/woman centered/multi-disciplined/about Spirit…delta dandi is a living cacophony of monologues, chants, choral tellings, blood memories dance and song. Through glimpses of the transmigration of one Spirit’s many lives/delta dandi asks how does collective grief and trauma inform the Black-American experience? What must a Soul do to heal? What is the traditional role of Queers in ritual?. A re-imagining of sacred concerts and tone poems that jazz icons Duke Ellington and Mary Lou Williams innovated/delta dandi is ritual jazz theatre conjuring transformation and Love….
VIEW CLIPS
Filmmaker Q Ragsdale created this wonderful short featuring audience members giving their reactions to delta dandi immediately following the show at the Long Center in Austin, TX. 1/09.
Thank you to everyone that came out and showed support/and to all the wonderful people that Blessed us with these beautiful comments.
To VIEW CLIPS from the 1/09 show
BOOKING INFORMATION
Bridgforth and 2 company members will cast performers from the community that the work is being presented in. Auditions and rehearsals will happen during residency programming. For Booking Information CLICK HERE
ABOUT THE 1/09 SHOW
WE DID IT!!
Photo Credit: Bret Brookshire.
We received prayers/shout outs/Energy from soooo many of you
and soooo many of you helped to spread the word about the delta dandi premiere at the Long Center in Austin, TX/and soooo many of you came to the show that WE SOLD OUT BOTH NIGHTS!! On behalf of the cast/crew and producers THANK YOU!!
REVIEWS
Abe Louise Young Blessed us with an article in the Austin Chronicle. To read: CLICK HERE
Clare Croft reviewed the show at the Statesmen’s Austin 360. To Read CLICK HERE
To Read what RedBone Press Author Samiya Bashire said about delta dandi CLICK HERE
ABOUT THE 1/09 CAST/FUNDERS & PRODUCERS
dandi COMMUNITY
To read about our community of dandis individuals that provided funding for the 1/09 show CLICK HERE
Deep and Heartfelt thanks to Tonya Engel for donating permission for us to use this AMAZING piece as the promotional image for delta dandi!!! The painting is: The Actress. Oil on Canvas. 20inx30in. Check out tonyaengel.com
ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF delta dandi
delta dandi is a National Performance Network Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Women & Their Work, in partnership with 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 go to: npnweb.org
To view photos and more from the delta dandi Staged Reading produced in Austin, TX by allgo (Austin’s Queer People of Color Organization) and The John Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas, Austin CLICK HERE
To view photos and more from the The delta dandi Master Class at Scripps College Staged Reading 10/3 & 10/4 2008 sponsored by The Intercollegiate Women’s Studies Center of The Claremont Colleges CLICK HERE
To view photos and more of the Staged Reading presented by Freedom Train Productions
during Fire! New Play Festival 2008 8/6 - 8/21 in Ft Greene, BK
About delta dandi. CLICK HERE
View photos and more from the November 2007 reading of delta dandi sponsored by The John Warfield Center For African And African American Studies during which I conducted the audience in a read through of the script (which at that time was all of 10 pages) CLICK HERE
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) 2009 Sharon Bridgforth
dandi RESEARCH
*delta dandi is a National Performance Network Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Women & Their Work, in partnership with 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: go to npnweb.org
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