Great.Performances.S50E01.Black.Lucy.and.The.Bard.720p.WEB.H264-HYMN
Date: 2023-11-05
Quality: 1280x720 @ 29.970 FPS 4500kb/s (AAC @ 157kb/s)
Runtime: 1 h 24 min
Language: English
Subtitles: English
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/black-lucy-and-the-bard-about/13909
S50 Ep1
Black Lucy and The Bard
Premiere: 9/16/2022 | 01:24:17 | TV-14 |
Explore Shakespeare's love life through the perspective of the "Dark Lady"
in this work from Nashville Ballet based on poetry by Caroline Randall Williams
and featuring an original score by GRAMMY winner Rhiannon Giddens.
About the Episode
A cross-disciplinary tour de force performed by Nashville Ballet,
Great Performances: Black Lucy and The Bard explores the love life of William
Shakespeare and his muses, the "Dark Lady" and the "Fair Youth," presenting the
idea that these subjects and inspirations in his love sonnets were a Black woman
and a young man. Mixing present-day and historical characters, the ballet is set
to an original score by GRAMMY-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens and co-composer
Francesco Turrisi. Author and performer Caroline Randall Williams narrates the
ballet with her own spoken word poetry from the 2015 book on which the show was
based, "Lucy Negro, Redux." Great Performances: Black Lucy and The Bard premieres
Friday, September 16 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/gperf and
the PBS Video app as part of Great Performances 50th anniversary season.
Exploring themes of love, otherness, equality and beauty, the cast includes an
ensemble of Nashville Ballet dancers. Claudia Monja leads the cast as Lucy along
with Owen Thorne as Shakespeare and Nicolas Scheuer as Fair Youth. Choreographed
and directed by Nashville Ballet's artistic director Paul Vasterling, the ballet
was recorded in March 2022. Playing onstage alongside the dancers in front of a
minimalist set, musicians Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi play several
instruments including violin, banjo, mandolin and piano.
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