The Show
Freestyler, Marie Laveau, Dance Master, Baron Samedi, Demon Fiddler, Bluesman, Morris Dancer
Dancing at the Crossroads is an impressionistic, evocative, engaging theatrical spectacle of live music and dance, celebrating the meetings and transformations between European and African cultures which are the deep roots of American popular music. Conceived as a show integrating music, solo & group dance, narration, solo song, projections, sets, and costume, it draws upon a corps of energized and charismatic young singers, players, and dancers, to tell the stories, both real and imagined, magical and mythical, dusk-to-dawn, that lie at the heart of the American expressive imagination. Mr Scratch & the Bluesman, the Dance Master and the Freestyler, Elizabeth Bennet & the Creole Girl, Reynardine & Marie Laveau dance their way out of history & legend and onto our stage. Suitable for all ages and accessible to widely-diverse audiences, the show is dramatic, participatory, and expansive, capable of taking any audience in any venue on a journey of adventure, discovery, and transformation.
Includes: English, Irish and Scottish folk & traditional songs; Irish solo set-dance and set-dances; Irish sean-nos song and sean-nos dance; Mississippi Delta blues and Texas sanctified song; English Border Morris and Cotswold Morris; American shape-note choral song; African American sea shanties; English Country Dance; Appalachian contra dance; Haitian quadrilles, and a New Orleans street parade.
Includes: English, Irish and Scottish folk & traditional songs; Irish solo set-dance and set-dances; Irish sean-nos song and sean-nos dance; Mississippi Delta blues and Texas sanctified song; English Border Morris and Cotswold Morris; American shape-note choral song; African American sea shanties; English Country Dance; Appalachian contra dance; Haitian quadrilles, and a New Orleans street parade.