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Klasik Form, Modern Movement
Inspired by the exhibition Manuel Mathieu: Pendulum, join guest lecturer Lauren Eldridge Stewart, an assistant professor in the Department of Music at Washington University in St. Louis, as she shares her research about the uses of classical music in Haiti. The lecture will be followed by a dance performance by Heather Himes and Brother(hood) Dance! Inc. on the Museum’s South Terrace.
About the speaker
Lauren Eldridge Stewart’s research interests include the cultural uses of classical music, folklore, and material culture across the African diaspora. She is currently writing a book about the influence of global aid on the contemporary practice of classical music in Haiti. Stewart has taught in the music departments of the University of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, and Spelman College; she has performed Haitian piano repertoire both in Haiti and across the US.
Courtesy of Lauren Eldridge Stewart
About the performers
Heather Himes is a dancer, choreographer, actress, director, and curator who received her bachelor’s degree in dance from Columbia College Chicago and her master of fine arts degree in dance from Washington University in St. Louis. She is a certified Dunham Technique instructor, and she has performed in many productions at The Black Rep and several productions at The Muny. She has choreographed Ragtime, The Musical (American Stage); Feeding Beatrice (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); and Dreamgirls (The Black Rep). She is best known for her work #triggerwarning and Black AF, a dance critique of police brutality against Black folx in America.
Courtesy of Heather Beal-Himes
Brother(hood) Dance! Inc. was formed in April 2014 as a duo, that researches, creates, and performs dances of freedom, by Orlando Zane Hunter Jr. and Ricarrdo Valentine. Brother(hood) Dance! Inc. is a 2020 Honoree of the New York Dance and Performance Awards, also known as the Bessie Awards, for Afro/Solo/Man. Both Hunter and Valentine received master of fine arts degrees in dance from The Ohio State University. The interdisciplinary duo seeks to inform audiences on sociopolitical and environmental injustices from a global perspective, an to foreground same-gender-loving African American experience in the 21st century.
Ticket information
Tickets for this program may be reserved in person at the Museum’s welcome desks or through MetroTix. All tickets reserved through MetroTix incur a service charge; the service charge is waived for tickets reserved at the Museum.
Courtesy of Brother(hood) Dance!
Generous support provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.
