Friday October 30, 2009
NOMMO: A Theatrical Piece. Percussion, Dance, Spoken Word.
7:30 pm / Kenan Auditorium
Tickets $15 general public
Free to students with valid UNCW ID.
Tickets may be purchased at Kenan Auditorium box office 910.962.3500.
Tickets may also be purchased at the door, starting at 6:30 pm on Friday, Oct. 30.
THE EVENT STARTS AT 7:30 PM.
For more information, call 910.962.3415.
As part of UNCW Jazz Speaks, the UNCW Department of Music presents Nommo, an evening of music, dance and spoken word, on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. Composed and performed by the jazz percussion group M'Boom, Nommo incorporates dance by four Wilmington choreographers and two poets. The combined efforts of the musicians and dancers involved promises to make Nommo an unforgettable evening of sight and sound.
M'Boom was the brainchild of the late jazz percussionist and visionary, Max Roach, who in 1970, gathered master drummers and percussionists to explore and compose for the myriad number of instruments in the percussion family and showcase the melodic, harmonic, timbral, contrapuntal and rhythmic possibilities of percussion instruments. After Roach's death in 2007 and the death of three other members, the surviving members - Joe Chambers (UNCW's Thomas S. Kenan III Distinguished Professor of Jazz, Warren Smith, Ray Mantilla - vowed to fulfill the vision originally planned for M'Boom. Joined by Steve Berrios and Eli Fountain, M'Boom continues as a vital force in jazz.
Choreography is by Nancy Podrasky Carson, Suzanne Palmer, Linda Larson and Kate Neely. Nancy Carson teaches technique classes, dance history, and choreography at UNCW. She is a founding member, teacher, dancer, and choreographer for the Dance Cooperative. Suzanne Palmer is co-founder and instructor of the Dance Cooperative. She with with Wilmington Independent Choreographers and Pamoja!, an African drumming and dance company. Linda Larson is part of the Dance Cooperative family as an instructor and mentor and submits regular entries in the North Carolina Dance Festival and Dancealorus. Kate Neely moved to North Carolina in 2007, and has studied and performed with the Dance Cooperative and Forward Motion Dance.
Spoken word is by Rhonda Bellamy and Shaun Mitchell. Journalist, author, actor and advocate for the arts, Rhonda Bellamy is news director for Cumulus Broadcasting, where she is heard daily on WGNI, WMNX, WKXS, WWQQ and On the Waveline with Rhonda Bellamy on WAAV. Her stage credits include numerous one-woman performances. Awards include the Woman of Achievement Award in Arts from the YWCA and Woman of the Year by the New Hanover County Human Relations Commission. Ms. Bellamy is a founding board member of the Black Arts Alliance, Inc. Shaun Mitchell, playwright, poet and actor has written and directed five stage plays produced in Wilmington, including I, Constantine, Theodora and Master Mold.
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