Created in collaboration with Ear Hustle from PRX's Radiotopia.
Silas Farley, choreographer and dancer
Cassia Farley, Rachel Hutsell, James Shee,
Taylor Stanley, Claire Kretzschmar, and Alizah Wilson, dancers
Kelly Griffin, soprano
Robert May, tenor
According to The New Yorker, the New York City Ballet (NYCB) dancer and choreographer Silas Farley recently took a walk through The Met galleries "in the hope that the muse—Terpsichore, specifically—might strike." She did. The result is Songs from the Spirit, a MetLiveArts commission inspired by The Met collection. Farley brings fellow members of the NYCB—and the audience—on a journey led by traditional spirituals and new songs created by current inmates at San Quentin State Prison who, through the podcast Ear Hustle, contribute music for the performance, offering a nuanced view of an exiled population, and the irrepressible human drive to create.
Free with Museum admission
Friday, March 8; 2 pm and 7 pm
Saturday, March 9; 12 pm, 2 pm and 7 pm
Sunday, March 10; 11 am, 1:30 pm and 3:30 pm
The performance begins in gallery 401, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gallery for Assyrian Art, and moves through gallery 217, The Astor Court, and gallery 700, The Charles Engelhard Court.
This program is supported by William H. Wright II and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Howard and Sarah D. Solomon Foundation, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, and Jody and John Arnhold, with additional funding provided by the Harkness Foundation for Dance.
Open rehearsals are supported by The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation.
Image: Silas Farley. Photo by Rosalie O'Connor
