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Speak Easy | Move Loud
Curated by John McDonald of Continuum Vocal Ensemble, the program will open with themes of gender and identity - celebrating authentic voices with works like “Song of Myself” by modern-day queer composer Stuart Beatch using text by Walt Whitman. With choreography by Josiah Gundersen, Abbi LeBaube, and Emily Haussler, RESILIENCE will explore ideas of self, belonging, grief, and acceptance.
The repertoire will progress to highlight popular work by 1920s composer Irvin Berlin, including “Always” and “Blue Skies”, joined by a trio of jazz musicians. RDC dancers will pay homage to these works, luxuriating in the rich and warming tones of the music.
In tribute to the improvisational aesthetics of the 20s, RDC dancers will next create and perform a new work, live, in collaboration with the musicians and audience input. Together as a community, we will experience the ephemeral nature of emergent, experimental art.
To close, the ensemble will perform works that underscore resistance, protest, and race in America, with compositions that uplift the words of Black literary giants like Langston Hughes and Francis B. Sayre Jr. in modern day arrangements. Works include Alex Berko's Lincoln and Joel Thomspon’s America Will Be. Jorrell Lawyer-Jefferson and Emily Haussler’s choreography will interrogate our responsibilities as a community, explore expression and perspective, and illuminate humanity in response.
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