Programs Salon Series
Salon Series
Since 2005, the Salon Series has been bringing edgy, artists uptown to the Apollo, providing them a space to stretch their creative boundaries and present works-in-progress in the Theater’s 150-seat intimate Soundstage. The Salon Series is the traditional “Apollo Experience” taken to the next level, providing both emerging and established artists with key critical involvement in the creation of new works. This groundbreaking series spotlights the Apollo’s continued dedication to its performing arts programming and its support of artistic experimentation and dialogue in contemporary culture. The series grows out of the Apollo’s ongoing role as an incubator for new and innovative forms of artistic expression, and its 75-year history of nurturing up-and-coming talent. The Salon Series provides artists with critical support in the development and creation of new works, including fee support, rehearsal/workshop space and time, technical/production assistance, and the opportunity to present two-three performances of the project.
Past Salon Series performances have included works from creator-composers Greg Tate/Burn Sugar Arkestra Chamber and Fred Ho, DJ Spooky, vocalists Helga Davis and Imani Uzuri, jazz musicians Russell Gunn, Dana Leong, Craig Harris’ God’s Trombones, and a new theatrical staging of Melvin Van Peebles’ 1971 film Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song.
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SALON SERIES HISTORY |
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2005 - 2006 |
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Sekou Sundiata’s |
blessing the boats |
March 13 — April 10, 2005 |
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Craig Harris’s |
God’s Trombones |
April 7 and April 8, 2006 |
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Dael Orlandersmith’s |
Stoop Stories |
April 14 and 15, 2006 |
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Universes’s |
Live from the Edge |
April 21 and 22, 2006 |
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Cristal Chanelle Truscott’s |
Peaches |
April 28 and 29, 2006 |
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Jerry Quickly’s |
Live from the Front |
October 6 and 7, 2006 |
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Russel Gunn and Bionic’s |
Krunk Jazz |
October 13 and 14, 2006 |
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Toni Blackman and Saddi Khali’s |
Grown Folks |
October 20 and 21, 2006 |
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Paul “DJ Spooky” Miller |
Subliminal Strings |
October 27 and 28, 2006 |
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2007 |
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Fred Ho’s |
Dragon vs. Eagle: Enter the White Barbarians! |
June 15 and 16, 2007 |
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Toni Morrison’s and Richard Danielpour’s |
Margaret Garner: A New Opera |
June 19, 2007 |
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Diedre Murray’s |
Vocal Landscapes: A Composers Journey |
June 21 and 22, 2007 |
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2008 |
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Imani Uzuri’s |
Her Holy Water: a Black Girl’s Rock Opera |
April 4 and 5, 2008 |
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Ayodele Casel’s |
Diary of a Tap Dancer |
April 11 and 12, 2008 |
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Guillermo E. Brown’s |
Shuffle Mode |
April 18 and 19, 2008 |
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L. Kabasomi (Somi) Kakoma’s and Chanda Rule’s |
Listening to Roots and Voicing Branches: Transnational Freedom Songs of the Black Atlantic |
April 25 and 26, 2008 |
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2009 |
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Will Power’s |
The Upper Room |
April 3 and 4, 2009 |
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Jessica Care Moore’s |
God is not an American |
April 10 and 11, 2009 |
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Dana Leong’s |
Life After Dark |
April 17 and 18, 2009 |
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Melvin Van Peeble’s |
Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song |
April 24 and 25, 2009 |
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2010 |
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Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber’s |
Burnt Sugar Freaks the JB Songbook (an Opera in Progress) |
October 8 and 9, 2010 |
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Gordon Voidwell’s |
Who Killed Andy Warhol? Who Shot Biggie Smalls? |
October 15 and 16, 2010 |
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Helga Davis’s |
Mephisto’s Song |
October 22 and 23, 2010 |
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William Caballero’s |
Speak! So the World Will Listen: Uganda |
October 29 and 30, 2010 |