Back to Black Showcase will debut its first Juneteenth show on June 17th at Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies, 700 E. Oakwood Blvd, Chicago, IL 60653, from 11:30 AM until 3:00 PM. The highly anticipated Juneteenth showcase will use modern urban dance and performing arts to celebrate, value, and understand what it means to be black. They will captivate the audience while taking the journey of how major milestones altered history in America and affected African Americans.
Girls Like Me Project Inc. sponsored the consciously crafted event as a commitment to help create a safe space the young urban artists to perform. The event will begin with the beat of African drums to set the tone of ”royalty” to show the stage of Africans in Africa. This part of the performance will enlighten the audience on how Africans were kings and queens in Africa. Through solos and group performances, the audience will be filled with emotions through “slavery.” Dance artists will interpret the cruelty of slavery and its effects on Africans in America. The audience will feel the raw unfairness of equality of “segregation “ in the nation. Finally, guests will be ledinto the “present day,” which will be mixed with police brutality and missing African Americans.
“We want the audience to enjoy our performance, but we want them to learn that African Americans have been through and survived all of these life-changing stages that affected the world but still prevailed,” said Black Magic founder and creative director Maya Unique. “Juneteenth is a day of celebration for our ancestors, but we will still have to overcome the challenges of today.”
Tickets for the Black Magic Showcase event can be purchased at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/back-to-black-tickets-576910293217?
