Brooklyn born and bred vocalist and composer Tamar-kali is a 2nd generation musician with roots in the coastal Sea Islands of South Carolina. Her 5 piece outfit enchants you with its melody, while delivering a swift kick to the gut with its incisive emotional core. As a songwriter and vocalist Tamar-kali has defied boundaries and blended styles to craft her own unique sound. The uninitiated may have caught a glimpse of her artistry in the documentary AfroPunk or in Focus Features’ award winning film Pariah, with incendiary performances and contributions to their soundtracks introducing viewers to a rare and unique talent.
Adia Tamar Whitaker, Artistic Director of Ase Dance Theatre Collective, has performed contemporary vernacular movement, modern dance, and Afro-Haitian dance in the U.S. and abroad for 16 years. Adia completed a BA at San Francisco State University, the Independent Studies Program at The Ailey School, was an Urban Bush Women Apprentice and a Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at FSU Choreographic Fellow. She received an Isadora Duncan Award for performance in “Ampey!” – a choreopoem she wrote, directed and choreographed – along with grants from the Puffin Foundation, Hip-Hop Theater Festival, and Jerome Foundation.
Nathan Trice is the artistic director/founder of nathantrice/RITUALS project-by-project dance theater company based in New York City 1998. Project’s to date are: The Recognizing Women Project, an inter-disciplinary research and performance initiative aim to explore various contributions and experiences of women, Strange Love: EPISODES a serialized episodic performance exploring the invisible structures of courtship, intimacy and love, amidst the music of John Coltrane & Miles Davis and The Summer Intensive Project a 3-week collaborative exploration that develop future societal frameworks to transform contemporary concerns into relevant forward thinking dance theater.
Date: August 10
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