2018 · Dance – stage work
Maafa – Revealing the Story
Archive folder: Maafa
Colette Eloi (EL WAH Movement Dance Theater)
An African diasporic and contemporary dance-theater piece whose title refers to the Maafa, the historical catastrophe of the transatlantic slave trade. It was presented on CubaCaribe's 2018 festival, themed 'The Movements of Migration.'
- Premiere
- 2018-06-22
- Venue
- Brava Theater, 14th Annual CubaCaribe Festival of Dance & Music (mixed program)
- Where
- San Francisco, CA
- Performances
- June 22–23, 2018, 8pm (CubaCaribe mixed program). CubaCaribe's 2018 festival videos are collected at https://vimeo.com/showcase/9672242 (not verified to include this piece).
- Credits
- Choreography: Colette Eloi. Music: Ben Juodvalkis (includes Colette singing, a prayer recording, and short excerpts of US, UK, French and Dutch national anthems for the 'calamity' sections around a Yemaya section). Rehearsals at Malonga Casquelourd Center, Oakland. Dancers (from Drive access requests, unconfirmed): possibly Audra Tipton-Moore, Isaura Oliveira.
Elsewhere
- Video on vimeo.com
- 2018 Festival Performance Videos (CubaCaribe) — Vimeo (CubaCaribe), 2018-06
- 2018 | Festival — CubaCaribe, 2018-06-22
- CubaCaribe | Video Archive — CubaCaribe, 2018