The love conjure/blues Text Installation is a multimedia production based on the book, love conjure/blues.
In creating this piece I was interested in invoking the text as a LIVING body of work. Film maker, Jen Simmons and I created a series of shorts based on the book. We projected the shorts on three LARGE screens in the room. Our goal was to create a circular environment for celluloid cast members, the performer and the audience to co-exist in. More about The love conjure/blues Text Installation HERE.
Here is one of the shorts…
I am proud to say that I served as Faculty at the 2012 CS Summer Arts in Monterey/AND I got to read on program with Kimmerbly Dark!
This clip is from our 7/24/10 SummerStage show in Springfield Park, Queens.
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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11/20 & 11/21 2009 I had a blast Conducting the audience at Northwestern University in reading delta dandi with me. The performance was part of the solo/black/woman series presented by the departments of Performance Studies and Theatre, and funded in part with a grant from Mellon Foundation. I am proud to say that I served as Artist-In-Residence in Performance Studies Fall 2009.
These clips are from the delta dandi Staged Reading Presented at The Fire & Ink Black Queer Writers Festival 10/09:
Women & Their Work in partnership with The National Performance Network and Sharon Bridgforth presented a workshop production of *delta dandi at the Long Center Rollins Studio Theatre 1/9 & 1/10 2009 8PM in Austin, Texas with support from the Long Center’s Catalyst 8 Boost Award, allgo (A Statewide Queer People of Color Organization), The John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas Austin, Austin Script Works, and The Rude Mechanicals.
Writer/Conductor/Producer Sharon Bridgforth
Featuring: Composer/Conductor/Performer-Helga Davis; Choreographer/Conductor/Performer-Baraka de Soleil; Florinda Bryant & Sonja Perryman; with Monique Cortez, Andrea Edgerson, Karla Legaspy, Leigh Gaymon-Jones and Azure D. Osborne-Lee. Set Designer: Leilah Stewart. Costumer: Miramar Dichoso. Technical Director: Tramaine Berryhill. Dramaturge: Jen Margulies.
Film Maker Q Ragsdale created this delta dandi promotional short for us….Bless you Q!
delta dandi Honeypot & dem
(Filmed by Q Ragsdale )
VIEW clips from the making of The love conjure/blues Text Installation. love conjure/blues is a performance/novel published by RedBone Press. Pictured: Omi Osun Joni L. Jones Performing The love conjure/blues Text Installation at The BlacKTino Performance Festival at Northwestern University.
VIEW clips from blood pudding. Written by Sharon Bridgforth. Directed by Laurie Carlos. Pictured: Florinda Bryant, Zell Miller, 111, Stacy Robinson, Renita Martin, Djola Branner. Photo by Bret Brookshire
VIEW clips of the root wy’mn theatre company. From 1993 – 1998 Bridgforth worked as Founder, Writer, Artistic Director for the root wy’mn theatre company, with Lori Wilson as company manager. Pictured…the original root wy’mn theatre company, 1993: Anoa Monsho, Sonja Parks, Arriama Matlock-Abdullah & Kaci Fannin. Bridgforth, Writer/Artistic Director. Photo credit: Rita DeBellis.
