Urban Bush Women March 1, 2008
1260 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
Founded by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Urban Bush Women produces works that bear witness to the transformation of struggle and suffering into the bittersweet joy of survival. The ensemble wakes up audiences with its physicality and furious energy.
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Urban Bush Women
& Compagnie Jant-Bi
Saturday, March 1, 8:00 pm
Ohio Theatre
Tickets $40, $35, $20 $15
Online ticket purchase available August 15, 2007
“Zollar’s Urban Bush Women possess a gorg eous movement quality, soft yet gr ounded, as if they are moving through clear, still water.”
— Washington Post
“Fantastic percussion from the ensemble sets the tone…The production shows the best of the tradition of West African dance and music…”
— NR C, Amsterdam
The seven remarkable women of Urban Bush Women and seven extraordinary men of Compagnie Jant-Bi from Senegal will perform The Beauty of Little Things—a collaborative work that has been created over the past three years by their artistic directors, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Germaine Acogny.
This highly anticipated new dance work will give audience members a unique lens through which to view the importance of landscapes and how we internalize them, speaking to the larger idea that “place” is a concept worthy of investigation.
Click here to see a video clip:
http://www.dancecleveland.org/2007/urbanvideo.html
Co-presented by DANCECleveland
and Cuyahoga Community College
Co-commissioned by DANCECleveland with funding from the 2006 Dance Joyce Award
Funded in part by American Masterpieces: Dance