According to The New Yorker, the New York City Ballet (NYCB) dancer and choreographer Silas Farley recently took a walk through The Met galleries "in the hope that the muse—Terpsichore, specifically—might strike." She did.
The result is Songs from the Spirit, a MetLiveArts commission inspired by The Met collection. Farley brings fellow members of the NYCB—and the audience—on a journey led by traditional spirituals and new songs created by current inmates at San Quentin State Prison who, through the podcast Ear Hustle, contribute music for the performance, offering a nuanced view of an exiled population, and the irrepressible human drive to create.
World Premiere
Performances take place in Gallery 401 in the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gallery for Assyrian Art; Gallery 217 in the Astor Court and Gallery 700 in the Charles Engelhard Court.
