In Philalphia, Girard College stunts are jog the poser Tyshawn Sorey and Yarn/Wire for a multimedia adaptatn of Ross Gay’s “Be Holdg.”
Contents:
- ROSS GAY
- OF BASKETBALL WH GRATU: ROSS GAY’S PAEAN TO DR. J BE A MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE
- ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS
- TAKG FLIGHT: ROSS GAY’S ‘BE HOLDG’ TELLS A BLACK STORY THROUGH PHOTO AND LYRIC
ROSS GAY
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Tyshawn Sorey, ont, the poser and multi-stmentalist, who wrote the mic for “Be Holdg, ” a show openg Philalphia on Wisniewski for The New York TimHigh Schoolers Get In on an Avant-Gar Mician’s Latt ShowIn Philalphia, Girard College stunts are jog the poser Tyshawn Sorey and Yarn/Wire for a multimedia adaptatn of Ross Gay’s “Be Holdg.
OF BASKETBALL WH GRATU: ROSS GAY’S PAEAN TO DR. J BE A MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE
Ross Gay’s o to Juli Ervg and the legacy of Black geni is the basis of a new mic posn and performance at Girard College. * ross gay philadelphia *
ImageBrooke O’Harra, wh the microphone, speakg wh stunt performers the show, which will be performed si a gym at Girard Wisniewski for The New York TimThey had all gathered for one of the fal rehearsals of their years--velopment, multimedia adaptatn of Ross Gay’s book-length poem “Be Holdg, ” which premier on Wednday at the gym — featurg movement, mic and work behd the scen by the school’s ’s text is nomally about a balletic, basele sop shot om the 1980 N.
ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS
TICKETS Ross Gay is the thor of The Book of Delights, a life-affirmg llectn of short lyric says that remds rears to appreciate so-lled ordary wonrs, even durg turbulent tim. His several volum of poetry clu Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, wner of the 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the 2016 Kgsley Tufts Poetry Award; Be Holdg, wner of the 2021 PEN Ameri Jean Ste Book Award; and Brgg the Shovel Down. A wrg profsor at Indiana Universy, Gay has earned fellowships om the Guggenheim Foundatn, the Bread Loaf Wrers Conference, and Cave Canem. Incg Joy explor the ways that people n spire love and passn by regnizg that which un . Major Jackson is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold Profsor at the Universy of Vermont, a re faculty member of the Benngton Wrg Semars, and the poetry edor of the Harvard Review. He is the thor of five books of poetry, cludg The Absurd Man, Holdg Company, and Leavg Saturn, and his work has appeared The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Ploughshar, among numero other perdils and journals. Jacksons many honors clu the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Whg Wrers Award, and fellowships om the Guggenheim Foundatn and the Natnal Endowment for the Arts. A Beat Beyond is a llectn of says, terviews, and not that lve to the tellectual and spirual aspects of poetry orr to unrstand s polil, social, and emotnal functns. Due to the changg nature of the COVID-19 panmic, please vis our webse before all events to fd the latt guidance about mask requirements. Books will be available for purchase at the library on event night. A book signg will follow the prentatn. Books provid by Uncle Bobbi Coffee and Books * ross gay philadelphia *
Asha Tejan, 16, a Girard sophomore who ntribut movement to the productn, praised Gay’s poetry, sayg he particularly relished “the way he’s able to jump om topic to topic. If that happens, Gay might also participate the recatn of his poem.
Ga, is recg “Be Holdg” the Wisniewski for The New York TimDurg a dner break, Wisher — a longtime iend of Gay’s — said that the poem’s imagery of Dr. ”Sorey’s mic here revels a dreamy nsonance durg Gay’s first extend scriptn of Dr.
TAKG FLIGHT: ROSS GAY’S ‘BE HOLDG’ TELLS A BLACK STORY THROUGH PHOTO AND LYRIC
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ImageGay’s poem is about a storied basketball play, the legacy of Black geni and notns of Wisniewski for The New York TimIn a phone terview, Sorey ngratulated Yarn/Wire for s abily to break down his personal language of nducted improvisatns, known as Autoschediasms, and to apply to this new “quote-unquote sre, ” to the pot where he don’t even need to nduct the said that the volvement of Girard stunts “mak the poem even more powerful, when they do the movements and when they get volved some of the nversatnal parts of the poem.
Poet and Sixers fan Ross Gay remas terted seeg his team prevail. “I feel like they’ll never w until they atone for tradg Mos Malone [ 1986],” he said. * ross gay philadelphia *
”O’Harra said that her visn for Gay’s poem “starts out really kd of simple: We’re a gym, there’s a person speakg, ” then marshals an unual blend of elements. Ross Gay is terted Gay wants to unrstand Gay is cur about Gay studi joy.