Provocative works by Michelle Jacques and Kiandanda Dance Theater highlight SFIAF’s season June 11-July 2.
There is much to celebrate in terms of local and international music, dance and theater when the San Francisco International Arts Festival presents its 20th season, June 11 through July 2.
The works of these seminal songwriters became part of the backdrop to the Great Migration as Black Americans moved out of the South during the Jim Crow era. Such artists as Becky Elzy and Alberda Bradford, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Lizzie Miles and many more are in danger of being written out of history. The genres of spiritual, gospel, jazz and the blues inspired Daughters of the Delta, which features original compositions and lyrics by Jacques and Cava Menzies, with new arrangements of traditional songs by Brian Dyer. It is meant to celebrate rich African American traditions and innovations.
Also in the festival, Kiandanda Dance Theater is set to perform “Religion Kitendi — Dress Code,” a new work by Congolese choreographer , Byb Chanel Bibene and composer Manolo Davila.
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