The Dallas Black Dance Theatre is reconstructing the 1951 dance, GAMES, by master choreographer Donald McKayle.
In the rehearsal studio Tuesday morning at Dallas Black Dance Theatre, some dancers warmed up their muscles, while others warmed up their vocal cords.. said."We are singing in the work, so there's no musical soundtrack to the piece. The piece is vocal music.", provide the a cappella soundtrack for the piece, GAMES.
"I'll be a little nervous, but I have you," Jones said looking at Rogers."I think it's growing us as a company."Sign up for NBC DFW newsletters"We are the Dallas Black Dance THEATRE, so why not do a piece that is giving more a musical theater lens," DBDT said."To create a ballet that's nearly 30 minutes long and there's no audio score, it's all a cappella, to me that's genius!". It was first performed in 1951. The dance takes the audience on an emotional journey; from the nostalgia of childhood games to innocence lost.
"Those themes of poverty and racial tensions, even today in 2023, we still have a lot of those things that we're dealing with in our country," Rogers said.
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