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AFRICANIST WEEKEND 2004
YEREDON: THE BIENNALE CELEBRATION
Celebrating the Performance, Ritual and Healing Arts of the Diaspora
February 6 thru 8, 2004
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LOCATION Ashamu Dance Studio Catherine Bryan Dill Center for the Performing Arts Brown University Waterman Street Between Brown and Thayer Streets Providence Rhode Island 3 Nights of Celebration and Performances 2 Days of Workshops Sponsored by The Brown University Departments of Theater, Speech and Dance, Africana Studies, Music, Rites & Reason Theater, Pembroke Center And the Office of the Chaplains & Religious Life. |
Yeredon, Africanist Weekend Biennale Festival is coming to the Brown University campus February 6th, 7th and 8th. Educators, world-class musicians, dancers, actors, storytellers and ritualists are collaborating to create a weekend of ceremony, performance, and workshops. We invite you to come share this experience with us. An opening celebration will be held in the Ashamu Dance Studio on Friday night at 8pm. Workshops will be held all day on Saturday and Sunday from 8:30 am until 6:00 pm. 3 exciting days of performances will culminate in joyous celebration in true African ceremonial tradition. We will be joined by several wonderful groups and many exciting individuals over the course of the weekend: Rose Weaver is an acclaimed Providence thespian, with her scintillating and sassy one-woman show, Menopause Mama. Frank Ward and Melody Ruffin-Ward are accomplished artists steeped in the tradition of African-American music and dance. New York Dance Collective features intimate, spirit driven, contemporary dance theater performance. Troupe Komee Josee is comprised of World Class musicians and dancers from Mali, West Africa. Crossroads is composed of faculty and students at Brown who focuses on musical styles of Hip-Hop culture, Haitian and American Jazz. New Works/World Traditions is Brown's own Performance Art and African Dance Ensemble. Sacred Voices, Spiritual Leaders, Elders, Storytellers, and Traditional Musicians invite you to come celebrate and share in the spirit of the Diaspora. |
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PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6A CALL TO THE VILLAGE: AFRICANIST WEEKEND OPENING CEREMONY 8 pm Ashamu Dance Studio Ashamu Dance Studio is located at Brown's Catherine Bryan Dill Center for the Performing Arts located on Waterman between Thayer & Brown Streets. From Waterman, take the sidewalk that runs on the side of the greenhouuse. Look to your right and wyou will see Ashamu. A call to participate and invoke sacred space with celebratory dance, singing, chanting, spoken word, live music, poetry and spiritual readings. Come join us in celebration! Guests include ROSE WEAVER, NEW WORKS/WORLD TRADITIONS, TROUPE KOMEE JOSEE, CROSSROADS, WORDS IN THE WIND, IYAMOOPO and THE HONORABLE THOMAS NIMELY YAYA. Tickets: $10 for Brown Students, $15 General Public ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7CELEBRATING AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE THROUGH SONG AND DANCE 4:15 pm Ashamu Dance Studio Ashamu Dance Studio is located at Brown's Catherine Bryan Dill Center for the Performing Arts located on Waterman between Thayer & Brown Streets. From Waterman, take the sidewalk that runs on the side of the greenhouuse. Look to the right and you will see Ashamu. Share the sorrow and joy, hopes and dreams of the black experience through movement, text of black poets, and music by Black American composers, with Providence Opera baritone FRANK WARD and MELODY RUFFIN-WARD. Tickets: $10 for Brown Students, $15 General Public LIVE FOR LIBERIA! Beneffit Church is located at 300 Weybosset Street in downtown Providence. 6:30 pm Beneficent Church, Downtown Providence Members of TROUPE KOMEE JOSEE makes a special appearance at the all-day rally as a prelude to appearances by Brown President, RUTH SIMMONS, U.S. Congressman PATRICK KENNEDY, Providence Mayor, DAVID CICILLINI, journalist HASSAN BILITY and others. Tickets: $10 ** AFRICAN DANCE PARTY (hosted by New Works/World Traditions) ** 10 pm - 2 am Ashamu Dance Studio Ashamu Dance Studio is located at Brown's Catherine Bryan Dill Center for the Performing Arts located on Waterman between Thayer & Brown Streets. From Waterman, take the sidewalk that runs on the side of the greenhouuse. Look to your right and you will see Ashamu. Come dance with us at a fundraiser for various New Works projects, including YEREDON - THE SAFFO PROJECT, a non-profit organization promoting women's and children's health in Mali, West Africa. With appearance by members of TROUPE KOMEE JOSEE. Tickets: $10 for Brown Students, $15 General Public ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ SUNDAY FEBRUARY 8THE SECRETS OF WOMEN/MOVEMENT MEMORIES (Free Performance/Workshop) 2pm Ashamu Dance Studio Ashamu Dance Studio is located at Brown's Catherine Bryan Dill Center for the Performing Arts located on Waterman between Thayer & Brown Streets. From Waterman, take the sidewalk that runs on the side of the greenhouuse. Look to your right and you will see Ashamu. THE NEW YORK DANCE COLLECTIVE presents spirit-driven dance theatre to the music of Billy Holiday, Thelonius Monk and John Coltrane, followed by a workshop on creating dance as biography and community. FINALE CONCERT Ashamu Dance Studio is located at Brown's Catherine Bryan Dill Center for the Performing Arts located on Waterman between Thayer & Brown Streets. From Waterman, take the sidewalk that runs on the side of the greenhouuse. Look to your right and you will see Ashamu. 8pm Ashamu Dance Studio Bring a joyous close to the weekend's activities with a grand celebration of the exuberance and vitality of the music, song and dance of Africa and the Diaspora. Enjoy performances by TROUPE KOMEE JOSEE, BAMIDELE DRUMMERS & DANCERS, NEW WORKS/WORLD TRADITIONS, and Guests. Tickets: $10 for Brown Students, $15 General Public
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE ASHAMU DANCE STUDIO Ashamu Dance Studio is located at Brown's Catherine Bryan Dill Center for the Performing Arts located on Waterman between Thayer & Brown Streets. From Waterman, take the sidewalk that runs on the side of the greenhouuse. Look to the right and you will see Ashamu. 9.30am - 11am African Dance w/Troupe Komee Josee= 11.15am - 12.45pm African Dance w/Troupe Komee Josee= 2pm - 3.30pm African Dance w/Fatou Keita= THE CAVE (LYMAN HALL 002) Lyman is located on the Brown quad adjacent to Ashamu in back of Brown's Catherine Bryan Dill Center for the Performing Arts located on Waterman between Thayer & Brown Streets. From Waterman, take the sidewalk that runs on the side of the greenhouuse. Look to your right and look for a large stone building with a rounded door and tower. 9.30am - 11am Intro To Traditional Yoruba Thought and Culture 11.15am - 12.45pm Women's Spirituality w/Sakena Young-Skaggs 2pm - 4pm Rites of Passage w/Rose Weaver LEUNG GALLERY Leung Gallery is on the Main Green of Brown University Campus, on the second floor of Faunce House. Faunce Arch is located at the intersection of Waterman & Brown Streets 9.30am - 11am African Drumming w/Abdoul Doumbia 11.15am - 12.45pm Haitian Drumming/ Kera Washington/Claude St. Franc 3pm - 4.30pm Children's Dance w/Troupe Komee Josee= LYMAN HALL 007 Lyman is located on the Brown quad adjacent to Ashamu in back of Brown's Catherine Bryan Dill Center for the Performing Arts located on Waterman between Thayer & Brown Streets. From Waterman, take the sidewalk that runs on the side of the greenhouuse. Look to your right for a large stone building with a rounded door and tower. 8.30am - 9.30am Educator's Workshop: Innovation and Tradition in Africa 9.30am - 11am Film Screening 11am - 12.45pm Lecture/Discussion w/Eric Charry & Paul Austerlitz LIST ARTS CENTER 120 (MARLON RIGGS FILM FESTIVAL) 1.30 - 2.30 pm Film Screening: Color Adjustment Marlon Riggs's study on Media and Race reveals the way in which the Television Age reluctantly and selectively integrated African-Americans into prime time. Television clips ranging from Amos 'n Andy to The Cosby Show illustrate how network watchdogs sublimated racial realities in determinedly non-controversial TV formats. Shows that depicted true-to-life situations were quickly canceled, often because sponsors demanded it. Successful programs frequently featured stereotypical or thoroughly assimilated characters. Riggs supplements his visual chronicle with behind-the-scenes commentary from actors Esther Rolle, Diahann Carroll, Denise Nicholas and Tim Reid; Hollywood producers Norman Lear, Steve Bochco and David Wolper; and culture critics Henry Gates, Jr. and Alvin Poussaint. Riggs's comprehensive analysis of prime-time race relations affirms the incisive observation made by James Baldwin in the quote that introduces the film: The country's image of the Negro, which hasn't very much to do with the Negro, has never failed to reflect with a kind of terrifying accuracy the state of mind of the country. 2.30 - 3.30 pm Film Screening: Ethnic Notions Marlon Riggs's groundbreaking study dissects a disturbing underside of American popular culture by revealing the deep-rooted stereotypes that have fueled prejudice against blacks. In a searing procession of bigotry, Loyal Toms, carefree Sambos, faithful Mammies, leering Coons and wide-eyed Pickaninnies scroll across the screen in cartoons, feature films, popular songs, minstrel shows, advertisements, household bric-a-brac and children's rhymes. From the 1820s to the Civil Rights period, these grotesque caricatures of African-Americans were used by white Americans to justify oppression of blacks. They have become imbedded in the American psyche and resurrected, in recent times, in subtler but no less hurtful ways. Actor Esther Rolle narrates the film: several scholars explain these images and help put them in a historical context. 3.30 - 4.30 pm Film Screening: Tongues Untied This is the acclaimed account of Black gay life by Emmy Award-winning director Marlon Riggs. Using poetry, personal testimony, rap and performance, Tongues Untied describes the homophobia and racism that confront Black gay men. Some of the tales are troublesome: the man refused entry to a gay bar because of his color; the college student left bleeding on the sidewalk after a gay-bashing; the loneliness and isolation of the drag queen. Yet Riggs also presents the rich flavor of the Black gay male experience, from protest marches and smokey bars to the language of the 'snap diva' and Vogue dancer. A benchmark film which speaks for itself. 4.30 - 5.30 pm Panel Discussion ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ SUNDAY 8 FEBRUARYASHAMU DANCE STUDIO Lyman is located on the Brown quad adjacent to Ashamu in back of Brown's Catherine Bryan Dill Center for the Performing Arts located on Waterman between Thayer & Brown Streets. From Waterman, take the sidewalk that runs on the side of the greenhouuse. Look to the right and you will see Ashamu. 9.30am - 11am Mali Dance w/Shata Kone= 11.15am - 12.45pm Mali Dance w/Joh Camara= 4.15pm - 5.45pm Guinea Dance w/Marilyn M Sylla THE CAVE (LYMAN HALL 002) Lyman is located on the Brown quad adjacent to Ashamu in back of Brown's Catherine Bryan Dill Center for the Performing Arts located on Waterman between Thayer & Brown Streets. From Waterman, take the sidewalk that runs on the side of the greenhouuse. Look to the right for a large building with an arch and tower. 9.30am - 11am Guinea Drum w/Sekou Sylla 11.15am - 12.45pm N'Goni w/Tani Diakite= 2pm - 3.30pm Dun Dun w/Seydou Coulibaly= 3.45pm - 5.15pm Djembe w/Abdoulaye Diallo= LEUNG GALLERY Leung Gallery is on the Main Green of Brown University Campus, on the second floor of Faunce House. Faunce Arch is located at the intersection of Waterman & Brown Streets 9.30am - 11am Hip-Hop Dance w/Off The Curb Performance Troupe 11.15am - 12.45pm Mande Song w/Troupe Komee Josee= 2pm - 3.30pm Senegal Dance w/Malang Bayo ORWIG MUSIC LIBRARY Orwig Music Library is located at 1 Young Orchard Avenue 5.30pm - 7pm Ghanaian Drumming w/Martin Obeng MANNING CHAPEL Manning Chapel is located at the intersection of Prospect and Angell Streets. 6pm - 7pm Imani Jubilee: Working in the Black Church Tradition w/Sakena Young-Skaggs = Dance classes w/members of Troupe Komee Josee (final schedule available Feb. 1) * For all dance and yoga workshop participants: Please wear comfortable clothes (and a change of clothes), and bring water and a small towel. African dance is strenuous and neither Brown University, the teachers nor sponsors assume any liability. Listen to your body! PERFORMERS & GUEST ARTISTS Brown UniversityPaul Austerlitz - Ethnomusicology (Crossroads) Michelle Bach-Coulibaly - Brown University, Theater, Speech and Dance Karen Allen Baxter - Rites & Reason Theater Martin Obeng - Ethnomusicology (Ghanaian Drumming) Words in the Wind (Donna Mitchell) - Rites & Reason Theater, Wampanoag Nation Clarice Thompson - Africana Studies (Crossroads) New Works/World Traditions Dance Theater Live for Liberia Global Alliance for Immunization Against AIDS Guest Artists /Speakers/ Workshop Leaders The Honorable Thomas Nimely Yaya - Liberian Minister of Foreign Affairs Rose Weaver - Performance Artist, Menopause Mama Melody Ruffin Ward - Rhode Island College Frank Ward - Old Dominion University, VA Marilyn M. Sylla - Bamidele Drummers and Dancers Sekou Sylla - Former member of Les Ballet Africaine/Bamidele Drummers and Dancers Malang Bayo - National Ballet of Senegal Eric Charry - Mande Scholar, Wesleyan University, Author of Mande Music Off the Curb- Hip-Hop Dance Troupe Kera Washington - Wellesley College (Haitian Drumming) Claude St Franc - Haitian Drumming New York Dance Collective Iyamoopo - Yoruban Divinity and Tradition African Alliance of Rhode Island Troupe Komee Josee (Mali, West Africa) Seydou Coulibaly (Dance/Dundun) Issa Coulibaly (Djembe) Abdoulaye Diallo (Dance/Djembe) Joh Camara (Dance/ Dundun) Abdoul Doumbia (Djembe) Tani Diakite (N'goni) Bala Kouyate (Balaphone) Shata Kone (Dance) Fatou Keita (Dance) Bouba Diabate (Guitar/vocals) Sory Diabate (Djembe)
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February 7, 2004