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Urban Bush Women

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Program: SCAT!… The Complex Lives of Al & Dot, Dot & Al Zollar
ADF Commission | Live Music
Running Time: 1 hour, 20 minutes, no intermission
Tickets: $35–$54

Please note, this performance includes adult and racially charged language.

Following the July 17 performance, Dr. James Frazier will present the 2024 Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for lifetime achievement to Jawole Willa Jo Zollar.

Immediately after, join us for a Celebration of Jawole Willa Jo Zollar!

Tickets $50 (includes buffet, 2 drinks, and dancing!)
Parizade, 2200 W Main St, Durham

Urban Bush Women Website

 
Video by Jeremy Jacob/A Doll’s House Pictures for the Fisher Center at Bard
 
Building upon a repertoire of bold, life-affirming dance works, Urban Bush Women celebrates its 40th anniversary with a new dance-driven jazz club spectacular that tells the story of two people making their way in Kansas City—from the Great Migration to the present.
 
Urban Bush Women founder Jawole Willa Jo Zollar grew up performing in floor shows in Black neighborhoods in a segregated Kansas City in the mid-20th century—an era when Black businesses were booming, and there was great hope of upward mobility post-WWII.
 
Performed with a live band to an original jazz score by Craig Harris, this North Carolina premiere and ADF co-commission tells the powerful journey of the Zollar family and what happens when dreams encounter the harsh realities of American life in the 1940s & 50s.
 
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, who created, choreographed, and directed SCAT!… The Complex Lives of Al & Dot, Dot & Al Zollar, says, “It is my story. It is my family’s story. It is a personal and collective story of a family and a people, moving from the Jim Crow South during the Great Migration.”
 

Read what Jawole Willa Jo Zollar has to say about this work in the New York Times! 

Wednesday, July 17 at 7:30 pm
Thursday, July 18 at 7:30 pm

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For the Large Print Program, click here. 

For Artist Biographies, Company Information, and more, click here. 

Photo credit: Rick McCullough

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SCAT!… The Complex Lives of Al & Dot, Dot & Al Zollar was commissioned by ADF with support from the Doris Duke/SHS Foundations Award for New Works.

This program is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.