“Griot Ballads” is about Afro-futurism with digital media. This 50-min piece includes African oral performance, black experience, movement, and short scenes, incorporating a camera and LCD projector bridging the divide between dream and reality, black utopianism, social justice and representation.

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Director: D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson

Choreographer: Bernard Brown

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Sacramento cast:

Isis Zarate-McCoy

Alexis Destiny Fennell

Starr Blessing Leverette- James

Brittani K. Banks

Eghosa Amure Igbinedion

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