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Filmed performances
Strange Fruit (version 2017)
Choreography
Director
Centre national de la danse
Collection
Year of production
2022
Year of creation
2017
Strange Fruit is a song first performed by American singer Billie Holiday at New York’s Café Society in 1939. Taken from a poem written and published in 1937 by Abel Meeropol, it is an artistic indictment of racism in the United States, particularly the lynchings of African-Americans, which were peaking in the American South.
With Strange Fruit, Billie Holiday broke a taboo: the summary executions of black Americans.
Andy De Groat created a choreography based on Billie Holiday’s song, which appears at the start of the 2007 version of “Swan Lac 1982-2007 (Swan Lake)”, performed by Alexis Traissac as part of the Festival des Hivernales by the Ballet de l’Opéra-Théâtre d’Avignon.
Source : programme du CND
Choreography
Director
Centre national de la danse
Collection
Year of production
2022
Year of creation
2017
Video production
Centre national de la danse – Recorded at CND 1st June 2022 during the exhibition “Andy De Groat, inspirations et libertés”
Music
Billie Holiday
Performance
AragoRn Boulanger
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