Resisting Oppression With Creativity, Two Ways
In a recent article in the New York Times, writer Brian Seibert reviews the Out-Front! Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Seibert highlights works by Kyle Marshall and alumnus Angie Pittman as outstanding performances of note at the festival.
Choreographer Angie Pittman delivered a powerful and introspective performance of their solo work, Black Life Chord Changes, at BAM Fisher Hillman Studio in Brooklyn on Saturday. The performance was part of the Out Front! Festival, presented by the Pioneers Go East Collective, and shared the program with Kyle Marshall’s Joan, a quartet inspired by Joan of Arc.
Pittman’s piece, paraphrasing the Afrofuturist jazz musician Sun Ra’s declaration, “It’s after the end of the world. Don’t we know that yet?” unfolded in two contrasting halves, titled Day and Night. The work examined themes of survival, resistance, and identity through an evocative mix of movement, sound, and spoken word.
Through Black Life Chord Changes, Pittman invited the audience to feel deeply and think critically, crafting an experience that was as intellectually stimulating as it was emotionally resonant. Their work, blending introspection and outward defiance, reimagines the boundaries of contemporary performance art, offering a potent reminder of the power of creativity in the face of oppression.
Read the full article in the New York Times: Resisting Oppression With Creativity, Two Ways.