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A HOOD OPERA
 "SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG"
d'après le film de Melvin Van Peebles
Melvin Van Peebles compositeur, directeur
Greg Tate directeur musical
Jared Michael Nickerson délégué général
Alfred Preisser conseiller créateur
Co-fondateur et directeur artistique de Classical Theater of Harlem
BURNT SUGAR THE ARKESTRA CHAMBER
Greg Tate guitare / Lewis"Flip" Barnes Jr. trompette /
Avram Fefer saxophone tenor / Dave Smoota Smith trombone / Paula Henderson saxophone baryton / Mikel Banks harmonica / flute / freak-a-phone /
Mazz Swift violon / Will Martina violoncelle / Jason DiMatteo contrebasse / Bruce Mack claviers / Andre Lassalle guitare / Jared Michael Nickerson electric bass / Chris Eddleton drums
SWEET SWEETBACK
Jeremiah Sweetback adulte
Kimberlee Monroe Bordello Madame / Old Lady
Tracy Jack Lady of the Night / Angel
Karma Mayet Johnson Lady of the Night / Angel
Chelsea Adewunmi Lady of the Night / Angel
Rejinald Woods Beetle
Lelund Durond Thompson Good Dyke Fairy Godmother
Alex Dittmer Older Police Detective / Biker
Roger Binette Police Commissioner / Biker
Jeffry Glaser Police Detective / Biker
Derrin Maxwell Moo Moo
Jacqueline Rego Biker Prez
Gillian Wiggin Hippie Girl / Biker
Naïma Yetunde Ince Sweetback enfant
Tracy Jack chorégraphe
Kimberly Glennon costumière
Grier Coleman assistante costumière
LaRonda Davis company manager
Naïma Yetunde Ince assistante Melvin Van Peebles
Gwendal & Anaïs Vachez assistants Melvin Van Peebles
The unforgettable Melvin Van Peebles' movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) is an iconic work of Afro-American cinema and the beginnings of Blaxploitation. It was one the biggest successes in the independent film-making and still has a huge influence over the hip-hop culture. Melvin Van Peebles' own compositions really determine the action by inventing something completely new, a funky cinema, thick, sweaty, and panting.
The freedom of speech and coarseness of some scenes, strongly contrast with Hollywood's puritanism as well as the way he shows the Afro-American community from the inside. The sexual exploits of the hero, his runaway to Mexico with the police on his trail, the ceaseless race on the verge of exhaustion of this man, still standing up, always at odds with society; the whole story composes a significant metaphor of Back men difficulties in the American society of that time.
The film becomes now an opera, and a world premiere for Sons d'hiver festival, led by Melvin Van Peebles himself! Greg Tate and Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber provide the musical part. As a matter of fact, the idea is not to replay the original but to adapt this unique work for the stage in a contemporary way. Co-founder of the Black Rock Coalition, Greg Tate and his Burnt Sugar Arkestra seems the perfect ensemble to take up the challenge, carrying on the heritage of a certain Black music from Duke Ellington to the Art Ensemble of Chicago to Funkadelic and Sun Ra.
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (a musical theater adaptation of the film) under the guidance of Mr. Melvin Van Peebles & Burnt Sugar Index LLC was developed in residence at The Apollo Theater Salon Series, Harlem N.Y and at BRIC Arts/Media, Broo
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 "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song"
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