Step Afrika! The Migration

“Fusing gospel music with tap, stepping, and gorgeous gumboot dancing” - The New York Times

After thrilling Lied Center audiences in 2021, Step Afrika! returns with lightning-fast footwork, percussive chants, and incredible synchronicity, creating a heart-pounding experience and celebrating the African American tradition of stepping. Based on Jacob Lawrence’s iconic paintings The Migration Series that chart the story of African American migrants moving from the south to the north in the early 1900s, Step Afrika’s powerful new work uses the images and motifs of visual art to tell the migration story through body percussion and dance.

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Location:

Lied Center Main Stage

Showtimes

Thursday, October 3, 2024 | 7:30 PM

We would like to thank our sponsors

Season Lieder: Preeta D. Bansal

Mosaic Circle: Preeta D. Bansal, Priscilla C. Grew, Art & Chris Zygielbaum

Dance Circle: John & Dee Cummins, Priscilla C. Grew, Karen Morgan, Katherine F. Starace, Steve Wake

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Sheldon in Focus: Jacob Lawrence

Public Gallery Talk - Thursday, October 3 at 6:00PM in the Sheldon in Focus: Jacob Lawrence Exhibition Galleries

Jacob Lawrence was an artist interested in portraying the lives and struggles of African Americans. Trained by a vibrant arts community during the Harlem Renaissance, Lawrence employed a modernist visual style influenced by African art that combined bright colors, angular figures, and a tight narrative structure to illustrate the histories and heroes of Black culture. For Sheldon in Focus, the museum draws from its collection two significant works by Jacob Lawrence—the painting Paper Boats (1948), and his eight-print series Eight Studies for The Book of Genesis (1990).

Exhibition on view at Sheldon Museum of Art August 15-December 31, 2024

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