Urban Bush Women's "Haint Blu" NYC Premiere Trailer

Urban Bush Women's "Haint Blu" NYC Premiere Trailer | June 2023

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HAINT BLU | NYC Premiere opening June 10th, 2023. Additional performance dates: June 13th - 16th & June 18th. Buy Tickets: bit.ly/HBNYC2023
Conception, Creation, Direction, & Choreography by Chanon Judson & Mame Diarra Speis, UBW Co-Artistic Directors
Music composed by Shirazette Tinnin
Video by Rashaud Michel
“You summon ghosts, you don’t know where they’ll take you. Happily, the spirits brought to haunting life by Urban Bush Women’s “Haint Blu,” an extraordinary dance-theater event took us from benign gathering to harrowing memory to explosive emotion to culminate in a luminous, otherworldly sense of power, affirmation, and redemption.” - Reprinted from the Artburst Miami review by Jordan Levin
"Haint Blu", is an ensemble dance-theater work seeped in memory and magic. Known as the color that Southern families paint their front porches to ward off bad spirits, "Haint Blu" uses performance as a center and source of healing, taking us through movement into stillness and rest: remembering, reclaiming, releasing, and restoring. It is an embodied look into familial lines and the movements, histories and stories of our elders and ancestors. It reflects on what has been lost across generations and what can be recovered. Haint Blu takes us to the magical place where spirits share their legacies, journey onward, and leave the thick residue of their knowing behind.
Haint Blu
Conception, Creation, Direction, & Choreography by Chanon Judson & Mame Diarra Speis, UBW Co-Artistic Directors
in collaboration with the company: Courtney J. Cook, Kentoria Earle, Roobi Gaskins, Symara Johnson, Bianca Leticia Medina, and Mikaila Ware
JoVia Armstrong & Lucianna Padmore, Musician/Percussion
Jaimé Yawa Dzandu, Community Coordinator
Lori Gassie, Costume Design Coordinator
Nicholas Hussong, Production Designer, Assistant Director
Grace Galu Kalambay, Composer, Musician/Vocals & Guitar
Luisa Buitrago & James Lanius III, Production Managers
Nina Angela Mercer, Writer
Pia Monique Murray, Associate Producer/CCI 2.0 Producing Fellow
Jolie Saltiel, Tour & Company Manager
Everett Saunders, Sound Designer, Composer
Jonathan D. Secor, Project Producer
Shirazette Tinnin, Composer
Talvin Wilks, Dramaturg
Nia Witherspoon, Performer
Tuce Yasak, Lighting Designer
Arianne Zager, Costume Designer
Haint Blu performances are proudly sponsored by Jazzmobile and the Harkness Foundation for Dance.
Haint Blu was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Mellon Foundation. Haint Blu is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth, YARD INC, Live Arts Miami, Williams College, and NPN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org
Additional Residency and Development support: LMCC's Residency Program, Arts & Culture on Governors Island, Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth, and Lumberyard's Technical Rehearsal Program.