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The Creative Process (11min)
Making of a New Musical: The Children from the Blue Mountain: Jermaine Rowe takes us into his process. Featuring interviews and clips from his collaborators. Featuring Teisha Duncan, Ricardo Barrett, L.W Miller, Jerome Morris, Julian Mejia, Sean Devere, Nala Nesbeth, Libby Silver and Alan Claus. Support made possible by LPAC Rough Draft Festival 2021
Transitions (45min)
Transitions explores a community’s decision to allow a trans spirit access to the land of the dead. The work is inspired by a real life incident of a trans woman in Jamaica. Using dance, music, projection design, storytelling, and a live DJ Transition (DJ Gazatwin), audiences will be invited into a contemporary Jamaican A Ni-night – a folkloric ritual usually performed on the 9th Night after the passing of a family/community member (wake).
Children From The Blue Mountain - Concert (60min)
After a two-year hiatus due to Covid19, Broadway's Future Songbook Series - produced, directed, and hosted by John Znidarsic , spotlight the songs from Jermaine Rowe's Children from the Blue Mountain in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
This original musical set in the magical folk underworld of Jamaica, tells of Akan folk creature, Anansi, who meets Jack Mandora within the hills of the Blue Mountains. As the world navigates an imbalance, they journey to find the power within all lost folkloric stories that was promised to set the world back to normal. This original musical score features reggae, dancehall, kumina, pocomania.
THE CONCEPT
An invitation into an Afro/Caribbean folkloric meditation focused on the body’s healing from trauma. Through voice, drums, dance and projection design, Jermaine navigates the Adinkdra symbols to reflect, retrieve and persevere mindfulness. This exploration is research for his work “The Legend of the Rolling Calf” - where he explores the question, “Can we break bloodline family trauma?”
PETRI-POTLUCK
TheTEAM highlighted 6 artists who developed work in the 23/24 PetriProject cycle, alongside foods from their cultural experiences. I shared white rum, ting and cocktail Jamaican patties to go alongside a selected excerpt from “The Legend of the Rolling Calf”
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