Patricia Cruz is CEO & Artistic Director.
Carl Hancock Rux is Associate Artistic Director & Curator-in-Residence. @carlhancockrux
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Harlem Stage Features
Harlem Stage Examines the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s & 70s as the Harlem Renaissance 3.0 Begins
MUSIC Friday-Saturday, February 24-25, 2023
HARLEM STAGE
Manhattanville, West Harlem
THEATER Fri-Sat, March 24-25, 2023
DANCE Thu-Sat, April 13-15, 2023
THEN AND NOW CONFERENCE
Thu-Sat, May 18-20, 2023
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Harlem Stage News
January 2023
The world premiere of Mabou Mines’ “The Vicksburg Project” play, traces the experience of women and gender-fluid Americans in Vicksburg, Mississippi during the Civil War. The 1863 battle for the last stronghold of Confederate traitors on the Mississippi River, which included a long siege, was a turning point in the American Civil War (1861-65). It’s at Harlem Stage in Manhattanville, West Harlem; on Friday-Saturday, January 13-14, 2023. From $25. harlemstage.com 🇺🇸
Writer Thulani Davis (The Village Voice) and Pulitzer Prize-nominated trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith (AACM Collective) present an evening of poetry around Davis’ works “Nothing But the Music” and “The Emancipation Circuit,” and Smith’s Kikuyu Ensemble.
- Black Arts Movement Examined Part III: POETRY (Day 1) explores the written and spoken word in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s-70s at Harlem Stage on Friday, January 27, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $25. harlemstage.org 🇺🇸
- Black Arts Movement Examined Part III: POETRY (Day 2) explores the written and spoken word in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s-70s at Harlem Stage on Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $25. harlemstage.org 🇺🇸
February 2023
Tap dancer Michela Marino Lerman’s Love Movement reimagines Max Roach’s groundbreaking 1960 album “We Insist! Freedom Now Suite.” In 2022, the Library of Congress called the record, “culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant.” @michelataps @love.movement_
- Black Arts Movement Examined Part IV: MUSIC (Day 1) explores music in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s-70s at Harlem Stage on Friday, February 24, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $25. harlemstage.org 🇺🇸
- Black Arts Movement Examined Part IV: MUSIC (Day 2) explores music in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s-70s at Harlem Stage on Saturday, February 25, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $25. harlemstage.org 🇺🇸
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?
Five Harlem Stage artists have gone on to receive MacArthur “Genius” Fellowships: choreographer Kyle Abraham (2013), pianist Vijay Iyer (2013), jazz pianist Jason Moran (2010), choreographer Bill T. Jones (1994), and free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor (1991). These artists made a difference in New York City.
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