The Great Yes, The Great No

Name: The Great Yes, The Great No
Start: 2024-12-05T20:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-12-05T21:30:00-05:00
Location: Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts

Schedule

Thu Dec 05 2024 at 08:00 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts | Miami, FL

The Great Yes, The Great No
U.S. Premiere for Miami Art Week
Conceived and Directed by William Kentridge
With Phala O. Phala and Nhlanhla Mahlangu
Conceived and directed by acclaimed South African artist William Kentridge (The Head & the Load), this multimedia show finds a host of real-life artists and intellectuals (André Breton, Suzanne Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, et al.) sailing to Martinique from Vichy France on a ship captained by Charon, the ferryman of the Underworld. The show adds a layer of fiction to history, and is part play, part oratorio and part chamber opera.
Kentridge’s breathtaking visual inventiveness combines actors, dancers, projections, masks and shadow play. Told in multiple languages, The Great Yes, The Great No captures the poetic and the revolutionary as it gestures towards a freer future.