UPDATE: January 11 review by Clare Croft on Statesman's Austin360 arts blogUPDATE: Article on Sharon Bridgforth and delta dandi by Abe Louise Young, published in Austin Chronicle of January 8
Found on-line:
Women and Their Work and The National Performance Network
with support from allgo (Austin's Queer People of Color Organization) and The John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas Austin
present
delta dandi
Written/Conducted by Sharon Bridgforth
Composer: Helga Davis
Choreographer: Baraka de Soleil
Technical Director: Tramaine Berryhill
Dramaturg: Jen Margulies
Featuring: Helga Davis, Baraka de Soleil, Florinda Bryant & Sonja Perryman with Monique Cortez, Andrea Edgerson, Leigh Gaymon-Jones, Karla Legaspy, Azure D. Osborne-Lee and Leah Sellers.
January 9 & 10, 2009
at The Long Center Rollins Studio Theatre 701 W. Riverside Drive Austin, TX 78704
delta dandi is a living cacophony of monologues, chants, choral tellings, songs and dance, layered weavings of different time dimensions and contrasting rhythms that invoke the transmigration of one soul's journey as she walks through life times of collective grief and trauma towards personal transformation and love.
Tickets $15 Available now at: Women and Their Work, 512.477-1064 or click here to purchase on-line.
Click for extensive information, video and images from Sharon Bridgforth's website
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