OTIS SALLID - DIRECTOR CHOREOGRAPHER
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In the early 1600’s a people taken from their homeland arrived on a new shore called America. They arrived here with no clothes on their back, no properties of any kind. They were Africans, stolen from their homeland and now they found themselves in a strange land.  Though a proud people, with a great history, all of this now seemed behind them and so very far away.  Through unmitigating circumstances, they picked, they worked, they hammered, they plowed until they weaved a music of God life that was like no other heard anywhere in the world.   They tooled a music that would change the face of history, change the sound of music throughout the world.  And this music was called SPIRITUALS.  In time it became work songs, blues, swing, jazz, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and rap. 

In this new accapella musical director/choreographer Otis Sallid has assembled an all star cast of twenty one singer, dancers and actors and takes a look at all the splendor, beauty and music of a time , long gone and past. Through the use of early African American spiritual music, Otis Sallid has taken a contemporary look at what is commonly termed Negro Spiritual music.   He has  refocused the lens through which the American slave holocaust is seen.  He has taken contemporary voices and has bought a new life to a music that, all to often , has seemed  forgotten.   In the hands of award winning director /choreographer,  Otis Sallid, spirituals, once again, IS very much alive.
  
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SPIRITUAL introduces its audience to early African-American spiritual music and explores the connection between song and experience.   It makes what was old, new again. What was then, now.  Spiritual takes a musical looks at the past and makes it prologue.

 The play SPIRITUAL tells a story of how this music garnered hope in times of need, joy in times of despair. How this music created a place of refuge for the heart when all seemed lost.  How it has allowed so many people to rise above unmitigated circumstances and in moments of great despair find unparalleled faith and aspiration.

Spiritual music, born out of bondage and enslavement,  have provided solace and celebration to African Americans for more than two hundred years. Though created in the past it’s timelessness becomes increasingly clear as you listen and watch this music being performed.   SPIRITUAL is a moving tribute to the early African American musical experience.

Bending it’s chords to heal, there is magic in this music.  It  plucks at one’s heartstrings to find joy in the darkest of places. No  matter how we move through time Spiritual music  continues to tell the story of how this music has always been a respite for the human soul.   And if it was then, it certainly is now.   

The songs that you will hear in SPIRITUAL date back to the early 1600’s, and reminds the audience of the importance of the oral tradition and it’s role in the development of  spiritual music and lifestyle.  In listening  you will find that this musical  form has had an unmistakable impact on American popular music and lifestyle. It continues to provide historical documentation as well as inspiration to listeners regardless of ethnic background.   

This is theater of the heart, made for everyone, from all walks of life. This music transcends race, creed, religion and color and in so doing  touches every heart and every man. Throughout the evening the audience finds that this story is not a slave story but a people story.   For many, this is life changing theater.  Before you know it  you will find yourself singing and clapping right along.  Standing on your feet in thunderous applause wishing for more.  It speaks to the human spirit. And that is why we call it SPIRITUAL .  


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