Living Fully: Standing for Justice

PERFORMANCE DETAILS

Exploring intersections of politics and social issues from a variety of creative perspectives, LIVING FULLY: STANDING FOR JUSTICE
features powerful voices in dance, jazz, spoken word, and mixed media. Curating the event is Nia Love, artistic director of Blacksmith's
Daughter, a New York City-based sociopolitical dance company.

Controversial themes rarely approached in performance mediums will be investigated throughout the program: the self-consciousness of
racism, the blurring of the political and the personal in suicide, the turbulent by-products of man's attempts to create and find peace,
the memorial of an artistic community entirely destroyed by HIV and AIDS, and the complex politics of love and freedom as seen through
athletic balances of the self and the communal.

Participating artists include the outstanding dancer and choreographer Vincent E. Thomas, Bring In 'Da Noise, Bring In 'Da Funk tap
artist Maurice Chestnut, multidisciplinary poet Tracie Morris, Tony Award nominee Marlies Yearby, Oprah-featured spoken word
prodigy Autum Ashante’, world leader in hip-hop dance and education Rennie Harris Puremovement, multiple Grammy Award-winning jazz
artist Wallace Roney, jazz visionary Antoine Roney, sociopolitical dance company Blacksmith’s Daughter, and Zane Booker, artistic director
of the Smoke, Lilies and Jade Arts Initiative, one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2007.

MARCH 15, 16, 17, 2007 AT 7:30 PM

KUMBLE THEATER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY, 1 UNIVERSITY PLAZA
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

NIA LOVE, Curator
LAMAR TALBERT, Producer
IOLET FRANCIS, Production Manager
AKANE NODA, Stage Manager
LUTIN TANNER, Lighting Design
RITCHIE SZOKE, Administrative Assistant