"Reconsidering"
RootsUprising Artistic Director
Nailah Randall-Bellinger
RootsUprising ensemble
Imani Deal, Jeryl Palana Pilapil- Brown, Patricka James, Jenny Oliver, Toni Singleton
So Noted
Choreography: Nailah Randall-Bellinger
Spoken Word: S. Pearl Sharp
Music:
Dancer: Patricka James
#shesstillbreathing- A Dance film narrative
Choreography: Nailah Randall-Bellinger
Cinematographer: Christina Belinsky
Music: Nina Simone
Dancers: Imani Deal, Patricka James, Jenny Oliver, Toni Singleton
Entangled Gaze
Choreography: Nailah Randall-Bellinger, Jeryl Pilapil Brown
Music: Alice Smith
Dancer: Jeryl Palana Pilapil- Brown
Initiation- In Love Solidarity
Choreography: Nailah Randall-Bellinger & RootsUprising ensemble
Cinematographer: Christina Belinsky
Dancers: RootsUprising ensemble
Spoken Word: RootsUprising ensemble
Music: Matthew Haskell
Migrated Souls
(the screams and visual referencing to the Atlantic slave Voyage may trigger uncomfortable emotions)
Baptism- A dance film narrative
Reclamation
INTERMISSION- 10 MINUTES
Women’s Work- A dance film narrative with live performance
Choreography: Nailah Randall-Bellinger
Poem: Dr. Thema Bryant
Spoken Word: RootsUprising ensemble
Music: Nik Bärtsch
Dancers- RootsUprising ensemble
Zipporah- A dance film narrative with live performance
Choreography: Nailah Randall-Bellinger
Consulting Historian: Vivian Johnson
Spoken word: Jenny Oliver, Nailah Randall-Bellinger
Dancer: Jenny Oliver
Rooted We Are
Choreography: Nailah Randall-Bellinger & RootsUprising ensemble
Music: Robert Glasper Feat. Hiatus Kaiyote
Dancers: RootsUprising ensemble
Many thanks to the production team and supportive sponsors:
Najee Brown, Artistic Director of Theater for the People
New Repertory Theatre, Creative & Administrative staff
Harvard Dance Center Administration
Sipho Robert Bellinger, Photographer
RootsUprising Advisory board: Sophia Boyer, Johara Tucker, Xavier Savage, Elizabeth Epsen, Kirsten Leonard
Please visit our website for more information of upcoming events at rootsuprising.org and theaterforthepeople.org/
New Rep's Saturday Stories series continues with
The GroovaLottos' Straight Outta Mama's Hamper
Saturday, October 1
7pm
With 8 Grammy nominations between them, Straight Outta Mama’s Hamper recreates the best of a summer Saturday in the life of a 1970's Black American family.
The GroovaLottos take us from morning cartoons to Soul Train afternoons and family cookouts that go till dawn.
This show will take place in the Main Stage Theater at the Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown. Tickets are $35, or purchase a ticket to both this and the Sunday, October 2nd show for $50. Save $5 on each ticket. Discount automatically applied at check out.
Learn more about The GroovaLottos
New Rep presents its Sunday Celebration featuring:
The GroovaLottos with "Bronx Jazz"
and a performance by
Abilities Dance Boston
Sunday, October 2
4pm
"Bronx Jazz" is a musical conversation between father and son about hip hop, jazz and oral tradition from the souls of Black folks. Join us for this Sunday celebration with The GroovaLottos and Abilities Dance Boston.
This show will take place in the Main Stage Theater at the Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown. Tickets are $25, or purchase a ticket to both this and the Saturday, October 1st show for $50. Save $5 on each ticket. Discount automatically applied at check out.
Learn more about The GroovaLottos