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Mourner's bench
This fight spiritual and strengthened between a dancer and a bench is inspired by the universe of the novelist Howard Fast and is alluded to the tragic influence of the Ku Klux Klan on a rural multiracial community of the South of the United States, after
This fight spiritual and strengthened between a dancer and a bench is inspired by the universe of the novelist Howard Fast and is alluded to the tragic influence of the Ku Klux Klan on a rural multiracial community of the South of the United States, afet the civil war. The interpreter affirms himself through a gestural language highly stylized against the topics of oppression and transcendence; “Sitted on the mourner’ S bench”, he reports the decline, the horror and oppression undergone by the black community.
CREDITS
Creation in 1947 section of the part “Southern Landscape”Choreographer: Talley BeattyFrontier runners: Joan Myers Brown – Cie Philadanco, Philadelphia the USADuration: 6 mnInterpret: SoloMusic: “There has balm in Gilead” song traditional negro spiritual
