Haint Blu is an ensemble dance-theater work seeped in memory and magic. Known as the color that Southern families paint their front porches to ward off bad spirits, Haint Blu uses performance as a center and source of healing, taking us through movement into stillness and rest: remembering, reclaiming, releasing, and restoring. It is an embodied look into familial lines and the movements, histories and stories of our elders and ancestors. It reflects on what has been lost across generations and what can be recovered. Haint Blu takes us to the magical place where spirits share their legacies, journey onward, and leave the thick residue of their knowing behind.

HAINT BLU

Conception, Creation, Direction, & Choreography by
Chanon Judson & Mame Diarra Speis
Co-Artistic Directors

in collaboration with The Company:
Courtney J. Cook, Kentoria Earle, Mikaila Ware, and Roobi Gaskins

Jaimé Dzandu, Community Coordinator
Lori Gassie, Costume Design Coordinator
Nicholas Hussong, Production Designer
Grace Galu Kalambay, Composer/Musician
James Lanius, III, Production Manager
Nina Angela Mercer, Writer/Performer
Pia Monique Murray, Associate Producer/CCI 2.0 Producing Fellow|
Jolie Saltiel, Tour & Company Manager
Everett Saunders, Sound Designer
Jonathan D. Secor, Project Producer
Shirazette Tinnin, Composer/Musician
Talvin Wilks, Dramaturg
Tuce Yasak, Lighting Designer
Arianne Zager, Costume Designer

About St. Mary’s

The “Be Not Afraid” Church

St. Mary’s Manhattanville is the “I am not afraid” church, standing up as a community of faith on the unceded land of the Munsee Lenape people,  in West Harlem to pursue justice and peace for the poor and oppressed, to pray and care for the sick, lonely and at risk and to put into practice the message of the Gospel by the power of the Holy Spirit. “Do not be afraid” Luke 1:30

Santa Maria Manhattanville es la iglesia “sin miedo,” en tierra arrebatada al pueblo Munsee Lenape, ahora West Harlem,  buscando paz y justicia al lado de los pobres y los oprimidos, rezando por cuidando a los enfermos, solitarios y marginados, y practicando el mensaje del Evangelio con la fuerza del Espiritu Santo. “No temas” San Lucas 1:30