on between two queens with precious ephemera and violet temper
on between two queens with precious ephemera and violet temper
on between two queens with precious ephemera and violet temper
Vessels
Rebecca Mwase and Ron Ragin, 2018
Lighting Designer
Created by Rebecca Mwase and Ron Ragin
Directed by Ron Ragin
VESSELS is a seven-woman harmonic meditation on the transcendental possibilities of song during the Middle Passage. Experienced within an interactive and acoustically rich sculptural environment that invokes those infamous ships, this interdisciplinary ritual performance explores singing as a survival tool and asks, “What does freedom sound like in a space of confinement?
”VESSELS will premier at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, March 7-10, 2019 (tickets available here), and will return to New Orleans in Fall of 2019 in partnership with Junebug Productions. In 2020, the piece will tour to East Coast port cities that were active during the Transatlantic Slave Trade and beyond. VESSELS is a National Performance Network/Visual Artists Network (NPN/VAN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Junebug Productions in partnership with Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, and NPN/VAN.
PERFORMANCES
Upcoming: Annanberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, March 2018
