Vessels

Grant Recipient Details

Location

New Orleans, LA

Artist

Vessels, New Orleans, LA

Artist Website

http://www.vesselsperformance.com

Project Title

Vessels

Fiscal Year Awarded

2018

Grant or Program

National Theater Project Creation & Touring Grant

Grant Amount

$70,000

Vessels is a seven-woman harmonic meditation on the transcendental possibilities of song during the Middle Passage, instigated by Rebecca Mwase, co-shaped by Ron Ragin with set design by Jeff Becker. Experienced within an interactive and acoustically rich sculptural environment that invokes those infamous ships, this interdisciplinary ritual performance explores singing as a survival tool and asks, “What does freedom sound like in a space of confinement?” The piece will premier in October 2018 in New Orleans and then tour to port cities that were active during the Transatlantic Slave Trade.