August Wilson Talk Series: Music and Dance
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Channel: The Greene Space at WNYC & WQXR · 2013 · People & Blogs
From Ma Rainey's Black Bottom to Fences to Seven Guitars, August Wilson's work is built on musicality and movement, both literally and poetically. Dramatists, scholars and historians of dance and music will consider the playwright's American Century Cycle in relation to these aesthetics. WQXR's Terrance McKnight will explore the polyrhythmic framework of these two performance aesthetics in a discussion with choreographer/dancer Ken Robeson, who choreographed Signature Theatre's 2006 production of Seven Guitars and Bill Sims Jr., renowned American blues musician and composer of original music for Wilson's Seven Guitars and Jitney.
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