Solange Knowles for Saint Heron has curated a Music series for the Brooklyn Academy of Music with an anomalous approach that celebrates intergenerational expressions of experimental and transcendent performance through the decades. Her dedication to reverencing and preserving the works of Black practitioners through Saint Heron continues with a lineup that consists of contemporary and historic creative revolutionaries whose artistry and innovation has left a profound mark on music and performance art. The series is named after Eldorado Ballroom, a Houston historic Black music hall in her native Third Ward neighborhood, where her love for performance started. Each night is programmed to explore artistic territory through investigations surrounding the sonic and performance-based expressions that have shaped the artist’s own practice. In these seven programs, the multigenerational audiences of Saint Heron’s and BAM’s communities will experience celebratory and tributary performances that honor the blueprints of these themes and genres as they are being reinvented today.
Program Notes from Saint Heron
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Featuring works by the prolific late composer Julia Perry, this showcase celebrates Black women classical and opera composers.
Celebrating feminine innovation in R&B, this show showcases the wave-making, genre-expanding autonomy of three visionary women pushing the boundaries of experimental songwriting and production.
Celebrating the art of wordless storytelling, this generation-bridging lineup showcases the poetry of movement in works by Autumn Knight, and an installation by Maren Hassinger.
Composer-musician-producer Gio Cortez presents a film tapestry of rare archives from New York City’s Puerto Rican neighborhoods, honoring the rich cultural significance of the city's Latin creativity and pride.
An observation of Black and contemporary dance films through the lens of Saint Heron.
This celebration of Black praise by women in spiritual and devotional music features compositions by Mary Lou Williams and performances by Twinkie Clark, The Clark Sisters, Artina McCain, and Angella Christie.
Through civic disruption by way of performance, poetry, and revolutionary thought, Archie Shepp, Linda Sharrock, and Claudia Rankine empower audiences to decipher the sorrow, rage, and angst of an era.
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