Singing Sun is a new performative action for artists and community that moves between the existing and new spaces of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, and emphasizes an endless natural cycle, moving throughout the day, inside and outside, bearing witness. The work’s choreographic map utilizes lauri stallings’ signature structures of live sculpture, movement choirs, and flocking patterns to surrender to Phil Freelon’s architecture - designs rooted firmly in place and time, explorations of the multiple functions of skin, and light and movement. The Center’s everyday choreography - its flow of bodies in space, sounds, and the energetic spirals pulling up into a sideways climb -  is always dancing. These architectural patterns provide a key for discovering the space’s wild ability to “hear light” to surface elements of Singing Sun we had only partially sensed before. The work is like taking a long stroll with a beautiful stranger. Along the way you might hear voices in multiple languages, remember the taste of your daddy’s sweet potatoes, or realize how The John Lewis Voting Rights Act changed your life.

Creative team:

lauri stallings, creator and choreographer

Elisabeth Remy Johnson, principal harpist, Kebbi Williams, tenor sax, flutist

Zee Covington, Noëlle Dave’, Mary Jane Pennington, moving artists

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