May, 4-6, 2023

nia love: UNDERcurrents

nia love UNDERcurrents at Harlem Stage Nic Petry

Harlem Stage presents WaterWorks Established artist, Bessie and Herb Alpert Award-winning dancer and choreographer, nia love, and her collaborators, in UNDERcurrents. Through dance and live music, the work explores themes of water and doors and centers the infamous Middle Passage, where human beings were transported across the Atlantic Ocean to a life of enslavement, as “the door of no return.”  Don’t miss this powerful and immersive experience at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse!

Dancers Cyan Hunter, Diana Uribe, j. bouey, Jesse Phillips-Fein, Jessica Ziegler, Lela Aisha Jones, Makeda Lily Love-Roney, and Marco Farroni; and with the composer-musicians Antoine Roney, Emanuel Ruffler, Jeremiah Ka’lab, and Kojo Roney.

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A dancer in a black tutu and leotard and pointe shoes stands on one leg, with the other leg extended behind the body in a straight line. One arm is raised above the head and the other extended to the back parallel to the extended leg. The school director is opposite the dancer and wears a red DTH logo t-shirt and black pants and ballet slippers. She holds the hand of the arm raised above the dancer’s head with one arm and her back arm is extended and she is smiling at the student.

 

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A dancer in a black tutu and leotard and pointe shoes stands on one leg, with the other leg extended behind the body in a straight line. One arm is raised above the head and the other extended to the back parallel to the extended leg. The school director is opposite the dancer and wears a red DTH logo t-shirt and black pants and ballet slippers. She holds the hand of the arm raised above the dancer’s head with one arm and her back arm is extended and she is smiling at the student.

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