Still Confronting the Ground
Houston Metropolitan School of Dance
presents:
Still Confronting the Ground – a dance theater work that “finds them attending to the serious business of happiness in an evening of choreography and performance created in honor of growing up, and what it takes to get there.”
jhon r. stronks – Choreography and Direction
Clair Hummel – Costume Design
Kris Phelps – Lighting Design
Natasha Manley – Live Light
Jeremiah M. DiMatteo -Sound Design / Live PA
Adapted Texts:
Doors by donna e. perkins, Steady, Shiver and Loving a Man This Much by G. Winston James, A Greater Love of God and Country by Nikki Giovanni, Ode to Pluto and Ole Skool Gold Fish by jhon r. stronks, A Voice Behind the Door by Rumi, Under Certain Circumstance by Essex Hemphill, Multi Tasking by Dr. Joyce Reynolds, and Everybodies Gotta Cape by Margo Stutts – Toombs
Samples, Sound Bites and Live Remixes:
Hometown Glory by Adele, Shaft Theme and Junkie Chase by Isaac Hayes, Bird Flu by MIA, Building Steam with and Grain of Sand by Dj Shadow, Come Sunday by Duke Ellington and Mahalia Jackson, Sophisticated Lady by Ella Fitzgerald, Everybody by Martin Solveig, Superheroes by Daft Punk, excerpts a from The Justice League of America, The X Men Phoenix Saga and Jem and Holograms. Hey! Break-beat my Keys! by Jeremiah DiMatteo (DMJ live miX), Tape Dubs by Jeremiah DiMatteo (DMJ live miX)
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