2007 CoLA Events
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Performing Blackness Show Highlights Female Blues Musicians
Date: November 30, 2007
Location: Winship Drama Building (WIN), Room 2.180
Time: 8:00 PM
The Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) presents artist Sharon Bridgforth as part of its Performing Blackness Series. Bridgforth will read from her work in progress, "delta dandi," which explores the life of a blues woman musician traveling with a jazz band in the 1940s, at the height of the birth of bebop.
Bridgforth will create a living cacophony with musicians, dancers, a photo installation and narration that audience members will participate in. CAAAS supported the development of "delta dandi" with a research grant funding Bridgforth's trip to Nigeria in 2006.
Bridgforth is touring the country with her "love conjure/blues" text installation. She is a recipient of the Theatre Communications Group/National Endowment for the Arts Playwrights Award and is anchor artist for The Austin Project (produced CAAAS).