FANTASTIC!!!! All the Way Excellent Shots! Thank you so very very much your photographing is totally "on Point"....really brings home the energy and the feel of this most Excellent performance / Tribute . What a HONOR that it must be to be anyway a part of this historical event bringing the message ,the Afrobeat back home to the "Motherland" -the New Shrine! "Music is the weapon of the Future" That future is Here/ NOW-sight? Espically so very very Happy to see my Dear Friend Rujeko Dumbutshena . I Have to say! Thank you major Blessing to witness vicariously through your lens/images. ~~~~O~N~E~~~L~O~V~E~~~ Brother Thom ~ Fela' LIVES!~
Many thanks to Theater Communications Group, The Doris Duke Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts for giving me money to do this art stuff.
Niegel Smith is a founding member of 425D, a director’s lab. His New York directing credits include SEED
(Classical Theatre of Harlem and Hip Hop Theater Festival), Neighbors (Public Theater), Ether Steeds
(Fringe Award for Best Ensemble), We Declare You a Terrorist (SPF), Metro Psalm, Rainy Days & Mondays
(Fringe Award—Fringe Encores), Maud–The Madness (Phoenix Ensemble Theatre), One For The Road
and LIMBS: A Pageant (HERE). He is Associate Director to Bill T. Jones on the musical FELA! and has
assisted directors Jo Bonney, James Lapine, Kristin Marting, Richard Nelson and George C. Wolfe. As
Co-Artistic Director of PERMISO with Todd Shalom, he has co-conceived and staged mass rituals in
public settings. Smith, a graduate of Dartmouth College, has received grants and fellowships from Theater
Communications Group, the Van Lier Fund, and the Tucker Foundation. Before attending high school
in Detroit, he grew up in the North Carolina piedmont, fishing with his dad, shopping with his mom and
inventing tall-tale fantasies with his two younger brothers.
FANTASTIC!!!! All the Way Excellent Shots!
ReplyDeleteThank you so very very much your photographing is totally "on Point"....really brings home the energy and the feel of this most Excellent performance / Tribute . What a HONOR that it must be to be anyway a part of this historical event bringing the message ,the Afrobeat back home to the "Motherland" -the New Shrine! "Music is the weapon of the Future" That future is Here/ NOW-sight? Espically so very very Happy to see my Dear Friend Rujeko Dumbutshena . I Have to say! Thank you major Blessing to witness vicariously through your lens/images.
~~~~O~N~E~~~L~O~V~E~~~ Brother Thom ~ Fela' LIVES!~
THIS IS AMAZING!!
ReplyDeleteWay to go, Kalakuta!!!!! Beautiful pics, Niegel....
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ReplyDeleteAmazing photos. I hope everyone has a wonderful time and returns home safely.
ReplyDeleteRobyn
Niegel,
ReplyDeletei didn't see all these pics...
i'm so proud i did do the lighting on this one...
Lighting regards
Vincent Gornet