Fire on the Mountain
Fire on the Mountain is an interdisciplinary punk performance conceived by André M. Zachery in collaboration with composer Charles Vincent Burwell on lead guitar. Rounding out the original band is Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste on bass/keyboard synth and Jessie Nelson on drums. This project transposes the poetry and text of James Baldwin into original punk songs - an artistic gesture to add new urgency and energy to the eloquent yet powerful word of the iconic African American writer.
This work was commissioned to celebrate the 90th anniversary of James Baldwin’s birth for E-Moves 2015 at Harlem Stage. Fire on the Mountain is about deconstructing, questioning, and re-examining the relationship of Black Movement with Black Sound, it is intending to reclaim rock music - more specifically "punk" as a revolutionary Black art-form, and it is attempting to offer a new framework to experience James Baldwin's writings in a way possibly never before considered.
Special thanks to Harlem Stage Fund for New Works and project mentorship by choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones.
This work was commissioned to celebrate the 90th anniversary of James Baldwin’s birth for E-Moves 2015 at Harlem Stage. Fire on the Mountain is about deconstructing, questioning, and re-examining the relationship of Black Movement with Black Sound, it is intending to reclaim rock music - more specifically "punk" as a revolutionary Black art-form, and it is attempting to offer a new framework to experience James Baldwin's writings in a way possibly never before considered.
Special thanks to Harlem Stage Fund for New Works and project mentorship by choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones.
Renegade Performance Group is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a 501©3 umbrella organization.
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