Harlem Stage is a performing arts center in Manhattanville, West Harlem that has been incubating Black and Latin talent for over 40 years. It is one of New York’s sacred grounds because of all the genius that has passed through that stage.
You get to see artists here ~ before they are famous. To date, five Harlem Stage artists have gone on to win MacArthur Genius Fellowship Awards: Kyle Abraham (2013), Vijay Iyer (2013), Jason Moran (2010), Bill T. Jones (1994), and Cecil Taylor (1991).
Thank you Harlem Stage for sponsoring Black and Latin culture at New York Latin Culture Magazine. We didn’t cover much African American culture when we started more than a decade ago. We thought Americans were already well covered. We had to leave the States to realize we were wrong. So we are working on it, and it’s a real honor to work for you.
Harlem Stage Features
Black Arts Movement: Examined Looks at Theatre of the 1960s & 70s at Harlem Stage
Friday, March 24, 2023
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Harlem Stage News
March 2023
Adrienne Kennedy reads from her classic play “Funnyhouse of a Negro,” about a young Black New York student trying to figure out her identity. It’s now a popular college play. Carl Hancock Rux discusses its impact and relationship to the Black Arts Movement.
- Black Arts Movement Examined Part V: THEATER (Day 1) explores theatre in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s-70s at Harlem Stage on Friday, March 24, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $15. harlemstage.org 🌍🇺🇸
- Black Arts Movement Examined Part V: THEATER (Day 2) explores theatre in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s-70s at Harlem Stage on Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $15. harlemstage.org 🌍🇺🇸
April 2023
As part of Harlem Stage’s signature dance series E-Moves, Francesca Harper, Ailey II Artistic Director and FHP Collective dance company founder curates a showcase of Black dance that respects the past while leaning into the future. @harperfrancesca
- Black Arts Movement Examined Part VI: DANCE (Day 1) explores dance in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s-70s at Harlem Stage on Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $25. harlemstage.org 🌍🇺🇸
- Black Arts Movement Examined Part VI: DANCE (Day 2) explores dance in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s-70s at Harlem Stage on Friday, April 14, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $25. harlemstage.org 🌍🇺🇸
- Black Arts Movement Examined Part VI: DANCE (Day 3) explores dance in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s-70s at Harlem Stage on Saturday, April 15, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $25. harlemstage.org 🌍🇺🇸
May 2023
Black Arts Movement Examined Part VII: THEN AND NOW CONFERENCE explores the Black Arts Movement of today at Harlem Stage on Thursday-Saturday, May 18-20, 2023 at 7:30pm. harlemstage.org 🌍🇺🇸
Artists
- Beth Morrison Projects contemporary opera and musical theatre 🇺🇸
- Craig Harris and Nation of the Imagination with Marshall Allen jazz 🇺🇸
- Edisa Weeks choreographer 🇺🇸
- Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité hip-hop theatre 🇺🇸
- Jennifer Cendaña Armas performance artist 🇺🇸
- Kings Return gospel 🇺🇸
- Leyla McCalla classical, folk 🇭🇹
- Natu Camara global Afrobeat 🇨🇮
- Pedrito Martinez jazz, rumba, timba 🇨🇺
- Repertorio Español theatre 🇨🇺🇩🇴
- Shenny De Los Angeles poet 🇺🇸
- Tamar-kali classical electronic film score composer 🇺🇸
- Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa-Nzou Mambano Zimbabwean gwenyambira (musical storyteller & healer) 🇿🇼
- Tariq Al-Sabir singer 🇺🇸
- Vinson Fraley dancer 🇺🇸
- Yaz Lancaster rock music 🇺🇸
About Harlem Stage
The Croton Aqueduct Gate House was built in 1884 and decommissioned in 1984. In 2006, the gate house, a place where water flows, was converted into Harlem Stage. Water is life. In Mother Africa, we worship water, and in the Caribbean, we say, “somos hijos del mar” (we are children of the sea).
Strong curation brings stars and rising talent to Harlem Stage. Don’t you wish you saw Harry Belafonte, Max Roach, Sekou Sundiata, Sonia Sanchez, Maya Angelou, and Tito Puente there?
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Harlem Stage
150 Convent Ave
(at West 135th St)
Manhattanville, West Harlem
Subways
(1) to 137th St – City College
(A)(C) or (B) to 135th St
