"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 

Purchase Tickets Here

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 

Learn more about Abilities Dance Boston

Purchase Tickets Here