PROGRAM
runtime, 65 minutes no intermission
I.
NOBODY'S FAULT
music - Meshell Ndegeocello, Nina Simone
OPENING CEREMONY
music - Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah
HELLO NEIGHBOR
music - Sons of Kemet
WATERMELON MAN
music - Herbie Hancock
Digital - 5,6,7,8 (2022)
music by JAB
II.
PLEASE
music - Vitamin String Quartet, The Smiths
Judea Lowe - soloist
STAY DRY
music - Hypnotic Brass Band
LOVE
music - Nina Simone, Burt Bacharach
Lyndsey Sanchez - soloist
VOISINS
music - Hot 8 brass band
Digital - From Thy Bounty (2020)
music by Williams Fairey Brass Band
III.
A CEREMONY OUR OWN
music - Cochemea, Little Simz, Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah
Digital - A MOMENT FOR SOLACE (2021)
music by The yeah, yeah, Yeahs; James Blake
ANCESTORS
music - Luna Del Flor, Leo Alarcon
This project is funded, in part, through a Seed Fund for Dance grant from the Upper
Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation,
thanks to the support of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.
DIRECTOR'S NOTE
We begin our season 9 with a winter production, something unfamiliar to us as we normally produce ballets in the summer. nevertheless, having this season with this production has allowed us to celebrate our experiences, our lineages, and our past, blending 3 narratives into one evening. With these narratives, we also delve into the concept of our stories and experience being tales lived not only through us but of generations past as well. History surely does repeat itself through cultural customs and ceremonies, but what of when our stories now match stories of our elders? of our communities?
a common misnomer is that our ancestors are referred to in the spiritual world. That they have transitioned over, and left us to proceed along. When I say "dances with ancestors" I refer not to the dead, but to the history we embrace. we repeat. we acknowledge and love. Dances with ancestors is an embracement here and now. Let's celebrate it.
a common misnomer is that our ancestors are referred to in the spiritual world. That they have transitioned over, and left us to proceed along. When I say "dances with ancestors" I refer not to the dead, but to the history we embrace. we repeat. we acknowledge and love. Dances with ancestors is an embracement here and now. Let's celebrate it.
- Stephen Hill, founding artistic director
CAST
Alaynia La Porte
Judea Lowe
Alazia Peters
Shakeena Randolph
Lyndsey Sanchez
Alexis White
Judea Lowe
Alazia Peters
Shakeena Randolph
Lyndsey Sanchez
Alexis White
CREW
Amanda Arenas
Jeevika Bhat
Tyler Brunson
Hera Ford
OG Park
Trevor Ricardo Spencer Jr.
Ginaury Vasquez
Jeevika Bhat
Tyler Brunson
Hera Ford
OG Park
Trevor Ricardo Spencer Jr.
Ginaury Vasquez
DIGITAL CAST
Brittany Lane
Corri Miller
Sheryl Miller
Jenae Selden
Trevor Ricardo Spencer Jr.
DIGITAL CREDIT
5-6-7-8
an excerpt from the ballet PLIGHT
this work originally premiered in June 2022
at Culture Lab LIC as a part of the emerging artist residency.
live performance for Dance BLOC NYC
recorded at Dixon Place, NYC November 2022
video credit Sangeeta Yesley, Creative Performances
FROM THY BOUNTY
live performance for National Choreographers Month (NACHMO)
at the The Mark O'Donnell Theater Brooklyn, NY February 2020
video credit Jamie Watkins
A Moment for Solace
filmed for Dance Quarantine Series, program VI
Dixon Place Digital, DPTV NYC June 2021
video credit The ChoreoJoey Project
an excerpt from the ballet PLIGHT
this work originally premiered in June 2022
at Culture Lab LIC as a part of the emerging artist residency.
live performance for Dance BLOC NYC
recorded at Dixon Place, NYC November 2022
video credit Sangeeta Yesley, Creative Performances
FROM THY BOUNTY
live performance for National Choreographers Month (NACHMO)
at the The Mark O'Donnell Theater Brooklyn, NY February 2020
video credit Jamie Watkins
A Moment for Solace
filmed for Dance Quarantine Series, program VI
Dixon Place Digital, DPTV NYC June 2021
video credit The ChoreoJoey Project
Special Thanks to our
season 9 Contributors
Kimberly Balogun
Lauren Costantino
Jessica Doughty
Tess Howsam
Lian Kizner
Denise Morales
Dakota Price
Mary Sofianos
Madelyn Sher
"Your Favorite Person"
Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation
Mertz Gilmore Foundation
MSG Entertainment Group, LLC
IndieSpace
Lauren Costantino
Jessica Doughty
Tess Howsam
Lian Kizner
Denise Morales
Dakota Price
Mary Sofianos
Madelyn Sher
"Your Favorite Person"
Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation
Mertz Gilmore Foundation
MSG Entertainment Group, LLC
IndieSpace
and Thanks to our supporters
Fractured Atlas | The Queens Lovely Things | Gibney Dance | Groundswell Dance Series | NACHMO
Dixon Place | ModArts Dance Company | Culture Lab LIC | Robert Allende | Danielle Brannigan | DeVaris Barnwell | Jennifer Griffin | Dean Loe-A-Foe | R.J. Laverne | Shirley Hill | Sangeeta Yesley | creative performances | dance BLOC NYC | Emily Wong | Edjo Wheeler | Tana Sirois | Fourth Arts Block & FABnyc.org | Brooklyn Ballet | K.S. J.A.M.M. Dance Troupe | Movement Improvement Physical Therapy
Dixon Place | ModArts Dance Company | Culture Lab LIC | Robert Allende | Danielle Brannigan | DeVaris Barnwell | Jennifer Griffin | Dean Loe-A-Foe | R.J. Laverne | Shirley Hill | Sangeeta Yesley | creative performances | dance BLOC NYC | Emily Wong | Edjo Wheeler | Tana Sirois | Fourth Arts Block & FABnyc.org | Brooklyn Ballet | K.S. J.A.M.M. Dance Troupe | Movement Improvement Physical Therapy
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