Rise Up!

May 2, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Mānoa Campus, The Kennedy Theatre

April 24, 25, 26 & May 1, 2, 2020
FRI/SAT at 7:30pm
SUN 4/26 at 2:00pm

Annual Dance Concert

Directed by Betsy Fisher

Rise Up! presents dance as a potent expression of social consciousness and features choreography by seminal dance figures Pearl Primus, Donald McKayle, Anna Sokolow, and more.

Lewis Allan鈥檚 poem about lynchings, 鈥淪trange Fruit,鈥 also recorded as a single by Billie Holiday, will be embodied in Primus鈥 powerful choreography.

McKayle鈥檚 majestic 鈥淚鈥檝e Known Rivers鈥 and Sokolow鈥檚 riveting 鈥淪teps of Silence鈥 will also take the stage.

Audience input will influence a work choreographed by 91精品黑料吃瓜 Manoa dance faculty entitled 鈥淰ote.鈥

The age of Aquarius dawns in part two, with selections from the 1968 Broadway hit, Hair, accompanied by a live rock band with choreography and musical direction by Honolulu鈥檚 own Andrew Sakaguchi.

Rise Up! shows in colorful, imaginative action, that dance creates powerful and glorious social statements.


Ticket Information
https://hawaiiathletics.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetGroupList?groupCode=KT&linkID=hawaii&shopperContext=&caller=&appCode=

Event Sponsor
Theatre + Dance, Mānoa Campus

More Information
John Wells, (808) 956-2601, ktpub@hawaii.edu, , Attached Document (PDF)

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