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URBAN BUSH WOMEN/COMPAGNIE JANT-BI CREATIVE EXCHANGE
Les écailles de la mémoire (The Scales of Memory)
NOTE:
Sun, Apr 6 performance added
Thu, Apr 3 performance cancelled
This unique project is setting the performance world abuzz for bringing together African and African-American dance companies—one all-male and one all-female—and two powerhouse choreographers. Germaine Acogny, the "mother of contemporary African dance," explores community and identity with Brooklyn-based, Bessie Award–winning choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, of Urban Bush Women. Acogny’s all-male troupe, Jant-Bi, performed Fagaala at YBCA in 2005 to widespread acclaim and Urban Bush Women has, since 1984, brought the stories of disenfranchised people to light through dance inspired by African-American traditions. Don’t miss the premiere of this new piece in which artists from Africa collaborate with the children of the Diaspora on a work that explores the crossroads between culture and ethnicity, history and modernity.
RELATED EVENTS:
Artists InSight: Urban Bush Women
RELATED LINKS:
Urban Bush Women Official Website
Compagnie Jant-Bi Official Website
Funded in part by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Ford Foundation and JP Morgan Chase. This project received support from the California Arts Council; WESTAF, the Western States Arts Federation; and the National Endowment for the Arts.
YBCA Performance 07-08 is made possible in part by:
The Columbia Foundation
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Additional Funding for YBCA Performance 07-08:
The California Arts Council, The Fleishhacker Foundation, Multi-Arts Production Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts: National Dance Project, Performing Arts Japan, a project of the Japan Foundation, WESTAF, the Western States Arts Federation, Whole Foods Market, Members of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
The presentation of Urban Bush Women/Compagnie Jant-Bi Creative Exchange is sponsored by:
