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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.
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