Performances will take place at The Chocolate Factory Theater, 38-33 24th Street, Long Island City.
Angie Pittman’s new evening length solo performance (broken into scores for “day” and “night”) uses dance improvisation – skilfully pulling from, and synthesizing, folk traditions of liturgical dancing, Soul line dancing, Umfundalai, and post-modern improvisation – with layers of sung and spoken text, patient listening, and recorded sound, to open an experimental improvised movement portal. Blackly so. Through these visceral Black womanist traditions, Black Life Chord Changes slips in and out of deep listening, seeing, improvisation, and truth telling.
Choreographer/Performer: Angie Pittman. Composer: Cody Jensen. Lighting Designer: Tuce Yasak. Recording Artists: Tiffany Williams, Carla E. Jones, Aaron (A+) Wilson. Arrangement: Ther’Up.Y. Lyricist: Angie Pittman. Cape: Vincent Tiley. Words: Angie Pittman with contributions from A Sef. Dramaturgical Support: Iris McCloughan. Production: Shana Crawford.
