Nashville Ballet: Lucy Negro Redux
Category: Dance
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Saturday, Apr 23, 2022 7:30pm
Location
Chrysler Hall
215 St Pauls Blvd
Details
“Absolutely transformative…A full-throated, full-bodied exploration of love and desire, exultation and loss, belonging and expulsion, ownership and autonomy.”
-The New York Times
Who was the Dark Lady of Shakespeare’s sonnets? For poet Caroline Randall Williams, she is a black woman, the muse who inspired the Bard to write “Then will I swear beauty herself is black.” It’s the idea that inspired poet Williams to write her book Lucy Negro, Redux—and inspired Nashville Ballet Artistic Director Paul Vasterling to create a ballet. The enchantment of the story is further enhanced by an entrancing score performed live by MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, composer Rhiannon Giddens. Experience a critically acclaimed new work that defies categorization: “a beautifully choreographed ballet, but it was more than a ballet: It was also a spoken-word incantation and a showcase for the musical genius of Rhiannon Giddens. It was a love story, but it was more than a love story: It was also a forceful and pointed claiming of female desire — for authority, for sovereignty, for sexual self-determination” (The New York Times).
