By Keyaira Boone ·May 7, 2021May 7, 2021
Jeremy McQueen, and Angelica Chéri are bringing the story of mothers mourning sons stolen by police violence to the screen in A Mother’s Rite. Danced by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performer Courtney Celeste Spears, the original ballet features a fictional mother expressing her pain through movement. It is set to a rendition of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring performed by the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo.
The performance is available to stream on Carnegie Hall’s website through May 31 as a part of the organization’s Voices of Hope Series. The ballet is a part of The Black Iris Project, “a ballet and collaborative and education vehicle,” that creates, and produces original contemporary ballet that honors diversity in Black culture and Black history. McQueen founded The Black Iris Project in 2016.
Photo by Matthew Murphy
“Dance is so transformative in the sense that it really allows us to be able to communicate volumes without even opening our minds,” said McQueen, who has received an Emmy-award nomination for his choreography. “Body language, the physicality of movement, can really speak and touch people in ways that, a lot of times, just reading or writing can’t. But in particular, I really believe that dance is a transformative art form in the sense that it allows us to almost step outside of ourselves and almost kind of escape and see things from a different perspective.”
The project was originally conceptualized and developed as a complementary stage show that was featured in the city of New York’s
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