"Part lyrical narrative, part bluesy riff, part schoolyard chant
and part holy incantation" — New York Times Lucy Negro, Redux,
uses the lens of Shakespeare's "Dark Lady" sonnets to explore the
way questions about and desire for the black female body have
evolved over time, from Elizabethan England to the Jim Crow South
to the present day. Equally interested in the sensual and the
serious, the erotic and the academic, this collection experiments
with form, dialect, persona, and voice. Ultimately a hybrid
document, Lucy Negro Redux harnesses blues poetry, deconstructed
sonnets, historical documents and lyric essays to tell the
challenging, many-faceted story of the Dark Lady, her Shakespeare,
and their real and imagined milieu. Inspired by the book, The
Nashville Ballet will premiere “Lucy Negro Redux,” an original
ballet conceived and choreographed by Artistic Director & CEO,
Paul Vasterling, in February 2019 at the Tennessee Performing Arts
Center. A collaboration of music, poetry and choreography, this
contemporary ballet based on Caroline Randall Williams’ book of
poetry of the same name is unique in process, content and format.
The project uses dance and music to execute the author’s
exploration of more than 160 of Shakespeare’s sonnets, and her
arrival to a thesis that the “Dark Lady” and the “Fair
Youth”—the subjects and inspiration of these sonnets—were
undoubtedly a black woman and a young man lover. Ultimately, in
experiencing Lucy through themes of love, otherness and equality,
the narrator, and thus the audience, finds a powerful female voice.
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