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Filmed performances
Mourner’s bench
Choreography
Company
Collection
Year of creation
1947
Year of production
2009
This spiritual and muscular struggle between a dancer and a bench is inspired by the world of novelist Howard Fast and alludes to the tragic influence of the Ku Klux Klan on a multiracial rural community in the southern United States after the Civil War. The performer asserts himself through highly stylized body language against themes of oppression and transcendence; “Sitting on the mourner’s bench,” he recounts the decline, horror, and oppression suffered by the Black community.
Choreography
Company
Collection
Year of creation
1947
Year of production
2009
Transmission
Joan Myers Brown – Cie Philadanco, Philadelphie USA
Duration
6′
Music
“There is a balm in Gilead” – traditional spiritual song
Production
