Ronald K. Brown/Evidence: A Dance Company – 2025 Winter Season
The best constructed work was the finale, “Grace” (1999), in which Brown created a Goddess figure come down from Heaven “to spread grace among humans.” In addition to a score by Duke Ellington, Roy Davis, Jr. and Fela Anikulapo Kuti which went from darkly dreamlike to upbeat, guest vocalist Gordon Chambers sang an uplifting soulful, spiritual number as the angel-like lead ushered the cast through a portal to their ultimate fate: heaven. Was it my imagination or did the dancers costumed in red change into the white of the rest of the cast as they exited? Was this, perhaps, a symbol of the acceptance of …grace? Costumes were by Omotaya Wunmi Olaiya. [more]
