Krissy Keefer’s Dance Brigade
| Ticket Information Regular Price: $30 - $50 Ticket prices include all fees. Run Time: 2 Hours, 30 Minutes (with 20 minute intermission) Reserved Seating |
The highlight of Dance Brigade’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Season is A Woman’s Song for Peace – a new dance theater work featuring original, live music by iconic musician and activist Holly Near, seminal queer feminist singer-songwriter Ferron, and groundbreaking Afro-Caribbean jazz artist Christelle Durandy, intertwined with Dance Brigade’s fierce, nuanced choreography and signature melding of styles with Hip Hop, Modern, Salsa, and Taiko – utilizing these storytelling components to convey a larger narrative about social justice and liberation.
A Woman’s Song for Peace is Dance Brigade’s contribution to the current political and social dialogue around peace, war, and foreign policy in our society and in the world. As we move through an intense and divisive Presidential election cycle in which these issues are front and center, it’s easy to forget that we all share a basic desire for peace. A Woman’s Song for Peace aims to reorient our audiences towards this priority, helping us remember our shared humanity. We offer our artistic response – a creative cry for peace – as a gift to our communities, an aid for individual and collective healing and transformation, and a vision for a way forward.
A Woman’s Song for Peace is Dance Brigade’s contribution to the current political and social dialogue around peace, war, and foreign policy in our society and in the world. As we move through an intense and divisive Presidential election cycle in which these issues are front and center, it’s easy to forget that we all share a basic desire for peace. A Woman’s Song for Peace aims to reorient our audiences towards this priority, helping us remember our shared humanity. We offer our artistic response – a creative cry for peace – as a gift to our communities, an aid for individual and collective healing and transformation, and a vision for a way forward.
About KRISSY KEEFER/DANCE BRIGADE:
Artistic Director Krissy Keefer explores the intersection between art and social issues with fierce inventiveness and a deft comic touch. Coming out of the legendary Wallflower Order (founded in 1975) Ms. Keefer has honed her craft over the last 40 years by creating her content-driven choreographies that are a high-energy blend of ballet, modern dance, jazz, song, text, sign language, and explosive Taiko drumming. Dance Brigade is sumptuous dancing; biting, intellectual, insightful wit; and provocative originality. This dynamic multi-racial troupe of women proves that socially relevant dance can be technically brilliant, as well as exuberant with down-home hilarious fun. This company dances at full throttle. The company has created over 10 full-length concerts of contemporary dance theater including Pandora’s Box, Ballet of the Banshees, Cinderella, Queen of Sheba, CaveWomen, Spell, The Revolutionary Nutcracker Sweetie, The Great Liberation Upon Hearing, and Hemorrhage. For these productions, they received numerous grants and awards.
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