Lula Washington Dance Theatre at New Jersey Performing Arts Center

The innovative and provocative Lula Washington Dance Theatre of Los Angeles thrills audiences with its powerful, high-energy dancing. A jazz-flavored program is specially planned for NJPAC.

Lula Washington Dance Theatre, created in 1980 by Washington and her husband, Erwin, has become one of the most admired African-American contemporary dance ensembles in the West.

The company’s repertoire is augmented with dances by choreographers such as Donald McKayle, Katherine Dunham, Donald Byrd, Christopher Huggins and Tamica Washington-Miller.* Scheduled for NJPAC are:

Reign (Rennie Harris, choreographer)...

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The innovative and provocative Lula Washington Dance Theatre of Los Angeles thrills audiences with its powerful, high-energy dancing. A jazz-flavored program is specially planned for NJPAC.

Lula Washington Dance Theatre, created in 1980 by Washington and her husband, Erwin, has become one of the most admired African-American contemporary dance ensembles in the West.

The company’s repertoire is augmented with dances by choreographers such as Donald McKayle, Katherine Dunham, Donald Byrd, Christopher Huggins and Tamica Washington-Miller.* Scheduled for NJPAC are:

Reign (Rennie Harris, choreographer)

Love Is … (Christopher Huggins, choreographer)

Dances for McCoy (excerpts; music by McCoy Tyner, choreography by Lula Washington)

Random Thoughts (excerpts; music by Terence Blanchard, choreography by Lula Washington)

We Wore the Mask (with live jazz drumming by Marcus L. Miller, choreography by Lula Washington)

*Program is subject to change.

This performance is dedicated to the memory of Newark's beloved historian, Dr. Clement Alexander Price of Rutgers University-Newark.

Co-presented by NJPAC and the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University-Newark.

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