Brooklyn Raga Massive
This live set was filmed at the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room in the Rubin Museum of Art. Ragas Live Festival 2020 was presented by Pioneer Works, Brooklyn Raga Massive, NYC Radio Live and the Rubin Museum of Art. This was the 22nd of 24, hour long sets which broadcast from 15 cities around the world.
Learn More About This GranteeUrban Bush Women
Hair & Other Stories is a dance-theater work that explores race, identity, and ideas of beauty through the lens of Black women’s hair. It reflects on what constitutes freedom, liberation, and release in our everyday struggles to rise to our Extra-ordinary Selves in extraordinary times. This is the urgent dialogue of the 21st Century.
Learn More About This GranteeSoho Rep
Inspired by an Ecuadorian ritual of preparing and eating “guaguas de pan” or bread babies, as a way to mourn those we’ve lost, this short film is both a release and a rebirth. It’s an examination of the relationship between creation and destruction, a return to a creative process, and a move beyond comfort zones towards a celebration of self-love. Created as apart of Soho Rep’s Project Number One.
Learn More About This GranteeAfro Latin Jazz Alliance
Recorded remotely from locations around the world, Arturo O’Farrill and the mighty Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra continued their Sunday night Birdland residency in an online setting. In this video, they paid tribute to the groundbreaking composer Carla Bley – and presented the virtual world premiere of a new Bley composition, “BluePalestine,” that was commissioned specifically for Arturo O’Farrill and the ALJO. In addition, there are guest appearances by Karen Mantler, Renee Manning and Patricia Brennan, and a special archival segment featuring Carla Bley herself, which was originally shown as part of ALJA’s“Notes For Votes” campaign, back in October 2020.
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