Wanda's Picks Radio Show, Friday, April 5, 2019

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!

1. Rennie Harris joins us to talk about his Lazarus, commissioned by Alvin Ailey Dance Theater. In its Bay Area premiere this coming week: Program A, performed Tuesday, April 9 at 8pm and Saturday, April 13 at 8pm, features the Bay Area premiere of hip hop dance pioneer

Rennie Harris

Rennie Harris’ Lazarus (2018), inspired by the life and legacy of Alvin Ailey. The work is the company’s first two-act ballet and was a 2018 recipient of the New England Foundation For the Arts prestigious National Dance Project grant. With Lazarus, which has a score by Darrin Ross, Harris addresses the racial inequities America faced when Ailey founded this company in 1958 and still faces today. True to tradition, the program closes with Revelations, Ailey’s 1960 masterpiece celebrating the African-American experience.

Erik Lee

Latanya d. Tigner

2. Rebroadcast of Wed., April 3, 2019 featuring: Erik Lee & Latanya d. Tigner, Mazin Jamal, Dr. David Campt, Shelley Davis Roberts.
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