Program: EVIDENCE, A Dance Company

PROGRAM:

MERCY
(2019)

Choreography: Ronald K. Brown 
Original Music: Meshell Ndegeocello
Scenery and Lighting: Tsubasa Kamei 
Costumes: Omotayo Wunmi Olaiya

Mercy premiered on July 5, 2019, at Bard Summerstage and is co-commissioned by the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Carolina Performing Arts, UNC Chapel Hill, and The Joyce Theater’s Stephen and Cathy Weinroth Fund for New York. 

— INTERMISSION — 

THE EQUALITY OF NIGHT AND DAY: FIRST GLIMPSE
(2022) 

Choreography: Ronald K. Brown 
Original Music: Jason Moran 
Speeches: Angela Davis 
Photo Integration: Deborah Willis  
Scenery and Lighting: Tsubasa Kamei 
Costumes: Omotayo Wunmi Olaiya

The Equality of Night and Day was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This work has been commissioned by UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance and Global Arts Live, a not-for-profit presenting organization located in Cambridge, MA, with additional commissioning funds provided by the O'Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation and was created in part during creative development residencies at LUMBERYARD and Center of Creative Arts (COCA) made possible by major support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a residency at the Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow, and an additional creative development residency at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) at Florida State University. 

 — INTERMISSION — 

COME YE
(2002) 

Choreography: Ronald K. Brown 
Music: Nina Simone and Fela Anikulapo Kuti 
Original Lighting: Brenda Gray 
Lighting Re-creation: Tsubasa Kamei 
Costumes: Omotayo Wunmi Olaiya
Film: Robert E. Penn 

Come Ye is a call to all those living in fear, all those willing to fight for their lives, and ultimately, to peace as guide and warrior. Come Ye was created with lead commissioning support from the Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, and with funding from the Edward W. Snowdon Fund, the Doris Duke Fund for Dance of the National Dance Project, a program administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Altria Group, Inc. Additional commissioning support was provided by the Hayti Heritage Center, the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University, Dance Place, George Mason University, Washington Performing Arts Society with support provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Fund, the Creation Fund of the National Performance Network, the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, and the African-American Cultural Center of Greater Pittsburgh. EVIDENCE would also like to thank the American Dance Festival for its support in the creation of this work.  

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