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Current Work
delta dandi...
With her current work delta dandi in-progress as the score Bridgforth will work with artists/students/members of your community to explore and examine creative process while workshopping this new piece to Life.
delta dandi is a National Performance Network Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Women & Their Work, in partnership with Center On Halsted and the National Performance Network. delta dandi will premeire 1/2009...For more go to: sharonbridgforth.com |
Short Bio
Bridgforth has broken ground in the creation and presentation of the performance/novel. Bridgforth’s work has fostered the study of Black lesbian performance literature in academic settings around the country including: Pitzer College; New York University, Temple University; Stanford University; Northwestern University; Tisch School For The Arts; University of California, Berkeley; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; and University of Texas, Austin.
Bridgforth has developed a method of facilitating creative writing that she calls, Finding Voice through which she facilitates a creative process, encourages writers to: use the page as a canvas; use identity-culture-memory-family histories-dreams; articulate and examine the socio-political realities of their lives in a form that is part poetry, part oral history, part performance art; to examine their creative process; to work in community as they use art as a vehicle for social justice. Bridgforth is Anchor Artist for The Austin Project (sponsored by The Center for African and African American Studies, U. T. Austin). Her Finding Voice Facilitation Manuel will be published by University of Texas Press in a book titled--"The Austin Project Archive: Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic" edited by Dr. Joni Jones , Dr. Lisa L. Moore and Bridgforth.
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Honors
-love conjure/blues :Urban Spectrum Black Book Award; Lambda Literary Award Finalist/Drama. -the bull-jean stories (RedBone Press): Lambda Literary Award. -YWCA Woman Of The Year/Arts Austin, Texas |
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Contact
PO Box 817
Austin, TX 78767 |
Artist Location
Austin, TX
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Art forms
Performance Art, Theater, Literary, Film/Video, Multidisciplinary
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Type of artist
Writer, Performer, Arts Educator, Director, Other
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General Themes
Activism/Social Justice, Feminism/Gender Issues, Sexuality, Race/Ethnicity/Cultural Identity, Religion/Spirituality |
Keywords
Black
Lesbian
Cultural
Jazz
Spiritual
lesbian
queer
women
Juke Joint
Blues
Spoken Word
Poetry |
| Last updated on May 30th, 2008 |
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