 Fred Ho photo: Jack Mitchell |
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Film/Performing Arts
JAZZ/FILM PERFORMANCE EVENT FRED HO: ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! THE BLACK PANTHER SUITE IN COLLABORATION WITH CHARLES BURNETT, PAUL CHAN, SCOTT MARSHALL FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, AUGUST 27 AND 28, 1999, 8 PM $10 ($8 WALKER MEMBERS) AUDITORIUM |
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Composer-saxophonist-theater director-political activist Fred Ho and filmmaker Charles Burnett will be in residence at the Walker for two weeks developing The Black Panther Suite, a multimedia exploration of the passion and the provocative power of the Black Panther movement of the late 1960s. The Walker presents two showings of this ambitious work-in-progress that tells the Black Panthers' story through densely layered, large-scale projections (a mix of film, video, and archival news photography) and a newly composed musical score performed by Ho and seven musicians. Ho, the leader of both the Afro Asian Music Ensemble and The Monkey Orchestra, combines West and Central African rhythms with elements of funk, R&B, and free jazz for this performance. Joining the collaboration are media artists Paul Chan and Scott Marshall.
THIS RESIDENCY IS MADE POSSIBLE, IN PART, WITH FUNDS FROM THE DORIS DUKE FUND FOR JAZZ AND DANCE, THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, AND THE PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS.
THE WALKER ART CENTER'S PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAM IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION THROUGH THE DORIS DUKE FUND FOR JAZZ AND DANCE AND THE DORIS DUKE PERFORMING ARTS ENDOWMENT FUND, AND THE MCKNIGHT FOUNDATION.