Intercollegiate Women’s Studies of the Claremont Colleges
invites you to join us for TWO consecutive evenings as
The delta dandi Master Class Presents:
WOMEN UNWOUND

Friday, October 3rd, 7:00 p.m.
Balch Auditorium, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
FEATURING: Melissa Hidalgo, Angela M. Salgado, Mariam Tejeda, Karla Legaspy, Patricia Nguyen, Mallory Scarritt, Danielle Monique Diggins, Shruti Purkayostha, Rebecca Ann Karpovsky, Lorraine LaPrade, Arielle Julia Brown, Sheila Barnes-Northrop, Laura Placencia

AND

Saturday, October 4th, 7:00 p.m.
Broad Performance Space, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
FEATURING: Raedorah, Elise Edwards, Laurie Callaway, LaTrice Dixon, Michele Hatchette, Julia Pashall, Quirina Mithcell, Jessica W. Cathcart, Sarah Jelinsky, Porschia Baker, Dorothy Randall Gray, Adelina Solis, Emily G. Webber

Each evening the class will present a staged reading of Sharon Bridgforth’s new piece, *delta dandi. http://sharonbridgforth.com

FREE. Each event will have a Talk Back & reception.

*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

ABOUT THE COURSE

delta dandi Master Class at Scripps College:

delta dandi master class will meet for one month
Class will begin September 8, 2008. Meetings will be:
Mondays 7PM – 10PM.
Saturdays from Noon – 3PM
There will be a special rehearsal/meeting on 10/2 7PM – 10PM
Public performances will be: October 3 & 4 at 7PM.

Participants will work as cast, crew & mentees.
The master class is available for 1/2 course credit as GWS 195, Internship in Feminist Activism.
Non student community members are welcome to participate without enrolling.

This course is sponsored by Intercollegiate Women’s Studies. For more information about enrolling for credit contact: Susan Castagnetto. If you are not a Scripps student and you want to participate contact sharon AT sharonbridgforth dot com

Participants will work with Bridgforth using her “Finding Voice” method as part of the development of Bridgforth’s new multidisciplinary theatre piece, delta dandi.

Students in the *delta dandi master class will work as cast, crew and mentees in a rigorous process that will culminate in a public performance of Sharon Bridgforth’s work-in-progress, delta dandi. Participants will open for delta dandi with presentations of their own work generated during the master class.

Spoken word artists, dancers, musicians, actors, poets, singers, closet singers, jazz lovers welcome. Activists, queer people, people of color encouraged. No experience necessary. You do not have to identify as an artist. An interest in art as a vehicle for social justice is a plus. Attendance at all meetings and performances is required.

delta dandi is 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….

Bridgforth’s work lives in a theatrical jazz aesthetic. This assumes that virtuosity, improvisation, innovation, the art of being present, listening, the fluidity of time and space, witnessing, breath, contrasting rhythms, synchronicity, circular forms, transformation and rigorous practice are a given. Prayer. Life. Spirit. Blood Memory. Revolution. Birthed in African American cultural. The work is used to build, nurture, extend, celebrate, humanity/liberation and dignity of all people globally. Bridgforth will employ her facilitation method called, The Finding Voice, to walk participants through the process of giving voice to their own stories based in the personal: identity-culture-memory-family histories-dreams to articulate and examine the socio-political realities of their lives.

*delta dandi is a National Performance Network (NPN) 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. For more information go to: http://www.npnweb.com

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