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Deborah
June 4th 2024
It was Excellent! A different side of her but she had a message to get out. Very intimate setting, sound at McCarter Theatre is Awesome. Would love to see her again.
Princeton, NJ@McCarter Theatre Center
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Esperanza Spalding Biography
esperanza spalding (a.k.a. irma nejando) is an eaabibacliitoti* artist, trained and initiated in the North American (masculine) jazz lineage and tradition. Her work interweaves various combinations of instrumental music, improvisation, singing, composition, poetry, dance, therapeutic research, storytelling, teaching, restorative urban land & artist-sanctuary custodianship, and growing in love as a daughter, sister, cousin, niece, auntie, great-auntie, friend.
She is co-founder and curator of Prismid Inc., a 501c3 that ushers and stewards restorative artist residency & workshop space in Portland, Oregon.
With her dance company Off Brand gOdds (co-founded with Antonio Brown) and the Songwrights Apothecary Lab she leads multi-week performance, workshop, teaching, and therapeutic-arts research residencies.
*European-African ancestored being influenced by American cultures living in Indigenous Territories of Turtle Island
Read MoreShe is co-founder and curator of Prismid Inc., a 501c3 that ushers and stewards restorative artist residency & workshop space in Portland, Oregon.
With her dance company Off Brand gOdds (co-founded with Antonio Brown) and the Songwrights Apothecary Lab she leads multi-week performance, workshop, teaching, and therapeutic-arts research residencies.
*European-African ancestored being influenced by American cultures living in Indigenous Territories of Turtle Island
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