D'Angelo Elegies

Harmony Holiday hosts an evening with Georgia Anne Muldrow, Imani Archer, and Bernard Brown reflecting on the tension between the spectacles of grief projected onto black fame and performance in contrast to their roots in black folk traditions. Drawing from her own life experience and her research into black grief threaded throughout the show, Holiday will lead a discussion about navigating public and private loss as a daughter of a celebrated musician. Holiday is joined in conversation by Georgia Anne Muldrow–singer, songwriter, and producer whose father Ronald Muldrow was a jazz guitarist–and Imani Archer–emerging singer-songwriter, and the only daughter of D’Angelo. The evening will close with an in-progress showing of “D’Angelo Elegies,” a new dance in dialogue with the music and life of the late singer that Holiday has developed throughout the run of the exhibition in collaboration with dancer and choreographer Bernard Brown.  

This program is part of the exhibition Harmony Holiday: Spectacular Brooding.