Spotlight in PURPLE - Season 2 Trailer

06/11/23 • 2 min

Spotlight in PURPLE, season 2 will be a three episode series following the unique creative process of the world premiere of the creation of PURPLE: A Ritual In Nine Spells - an ensemble performance premiering at Lincoln Center in June 2023.

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Season 2 of Spotlight in PURPLE has been created, hosted, produced and edited by Kirya Traber. Producing assistance by Ziiomi Law.

Music featured was produced by Counterfeit Madison

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Season 2 of Spotlight in PURPLE has been created, hosted, produced and edited by Kirya Traber. Producing assistance by Ziiomi Law.

Music featured was produced by Counterfeit Madison

Follow Kirya Traber on social media

Twitter: @Kiryatraber

IG: @KiryaT

Website: kiryatraber.com

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Instagram: http://instagram.com/slmdances

Facebook: http://facebook.com/sydnielmosleydances

Website: slmdances.com

Previous Episode

Welcome to Spotlight in PURPLE!

Welcome to Spotlight in PURPLE! This is a gift for you from SLMDances. This podcast is a companion to handmade zines - analog and digital - created for you, our treasured community. With both the zines and podcast, we invite you to indulge in an at home sensory experience. To learn more about SLMDances and Spotlight in PURPLE, visit: slmdances.com/sip

The inaugural podcast episode includes storytelling with SLMDances Creative Partners and a poem by Timothy Prolific Edwaujonte created as a literary contact-improvisation between our ensemble dancing and Timothy's writing.

This podcast features SLMDances Creative Partners Jessica Lee, Brittany Grier, Joan Bradford, Angelica Mondol Viana, Bianca Paige Smith, and Maya Simone Z. in conversation. The poetry is written and spoken by Timothy Prolific Edwaujonte, with Noah Jackson on bass and Ebonie Smith on drums and production.

Spotlight in PURPLE has been produced and edited by Jessica Lee, Bianca Paige Smith and Lorena Jaramillo, and funded in part by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Engagement.

SLMDances is directed by Artistic Director Sydnie L. Mosley, Strategic Visioning Partner A. Nia Austin-Edwards, and Artistic Visioning Partner Allegra Romita.

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Next Episode

Building the Altar: The Creation of PURPLE by SLMD

We learn about the history of how Sydnie L. Mosley Dances became a collective, the values that guide the work and how those values show up inside their newest work, PURPLE: A Ritual in Nine Spells. [Correction: SLMD was founded in 2010. In the episode, the host says 2014]

This episode features interviews with: Artistic Director Sydnie L. Mosley; SLMDances Creative Partners Jessica Lee, Brittany Grier, Joan Bradford, Candance Sumpter, Rebecca Gual and Lorena Jaramillo; Collaborating Artists: Brianne Ford, Jazelynn S. Goudy, Dyane Harvey, Counterfeit Madison (Sharon Udoh), Rosamond S. King, Amy Shoshana Blumberg and Ianne Fields Stewart.

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Hosting, editing, and production by Kirya Traber
Executive Production by SLMDances

Assistant Production by Ziiomi Law

Production support by Max Van & Lance John

Music produced and composed by Line Neesgaurd, Spring Gang, Ebonie Smith and Counterfeit Madison

Special thanks to Emma Alabaster

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