TYAPHAKA

Castle of our Skins blends music, dance & visual art in this one-of-a-kind showcase of Black artistry. String quartets by Florence Price & Jessie Montgomery share the stage with world premiere works inspired by African masks & South African artist Nicholas Hlobo’s “Tyaphaka” sculpture – a larger than life exploration of the submerged.

Musical Program: Voodoo Dolls by Jessie Montgomery

Static Dance (world premiere) by Pang Chun-ting (with a presentation on African Masks by L’Merchie Frazier)

Five Folksongs in Counterpoint by Florence Price (paired with quilts depicting African American/American life)

Tyaphaka (world premiere) by Clifton Ingram (paired with a contemporary dance performance by Lexy Lattimore and followed immediately by a talk-back with the composer, dancer and musicians)

Artists: 

Shaw Pong Liu, violin | Mina Lavcheva, violin | Ashleigh Gordon, viola |  Javier Caballero, cello

L’Merchie Frazier, historian and quilter | Lexy Lattimore, contemporary dancer 

Works by:

Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery and Castle of our Skins’ call-for-proposals winners Pang Chun-ting and Clifton Ingram.

This program was supported in part by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, a local agency which is funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, administrated by the Mayor’s Office of Arts Culture, the Harvard Musical Association, and Hibernian Hall.

Fri, March 24, 2017 @ Hibernian Hall @ 7:30 PM

Image credit: Nicholas Hlobo: Tyaphaka (detail), 2012 Rubber, ribbon, hosepipe, packaging material, 150 x 400 x 10000cm © Nicholas Hlobo. Courtesy of Stevenson Cape Town and Johannesburg

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