JJJJJerome Ellis: Aster of Ceremonies
Performance still from Harriet Tubman (Brandon Ross, Melvin Gibbs, JT Lewis) / JJJJJerome Ellis & Holland Andrews, at Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn, 2021. Performer: JJJJJerome Ellis. Photo by Cameron Kelly Mcleod, courtesy of ISSUE Project Room
JJJJJerome Ellis’s (2022 Awardee) presents portions of their latest transdisciplinary project, Aster of Ceremonies. Using piano, saxophone, electronics, and voice, they’ll perform excerpts from “Benediction,” a devotional song cycle attending to 18th and 19th century Black runaway slaves who stuttered.