Solange to curate BAM spring performance series
thefader.comThe Brooklyn Academy of Music has announced a new spring concert and film series called “Eldorado Ballroom,” curated by Solange with her Saint Heron Collective.
It kicks off March 30 with a show featuring Kelela, Res, and KeiyaA, followed by two nights of “Type of Guest,” a celebration of wordless storytelling by interdisciplinarian Autumn Knight and visual artist Maren Hassenger, with two film showcases — “Unseen Nuyorican Pictures” and “Coeval Dance Films” — and two more concerts — “Glory to Glory (A Revial For Devotional Art),” helmed by Twinkie Clark & The Clark Sisters, and “The Cry of My People,’ featuring jazz legends Archie Shepp and Linda Sharrock as well as celebrated poet, playwright, and essayist Claudia Rankine — during the following week.
Its final event — “On Dissonance”: an evening of classical and opera works by Julia Perry and Patrice Rushen performed by Davóne Tines, is tentatively scheduled for September 22.
The past few years have seen Solange and Saint Heron dive into curatorial work. In 2020, they partnered with The New School’s Parsons School of Design for “Here and Now,” a virtual fashion show.
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