The Lied Center for Performing Arts is proud to announce that Rennie Harris Puremovement will perform on January 26, 2019 @ 7:30 p.m. on the Lied main stage. Loosely based on Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, LIFTED! follows a young black man who is surrounded and supported by his church community. A limited number of free tickets are available to UNL students through the Arts for All program. Additional tickets are available for purchase tickets at a 50 percent discount with a valid NCard.
Community members and a University of Nebraska students Elizabeth (Lizzy) Kruse and Thao Duong will perform with Rennie Harris Puremovement during its public performance of LIFTED! Rennie Harris Puremovement is also working with Ananias Montague, the Minister of Music for Salem Baptist Church in Omaha, to include local singers in the performance.
Special Pre-performance Talk: Hip-Hop: A History | A conversation with pioneering choreographer Rennie Harris
Saturday, January 26th | 6:15 p.m. | Johnny Carson Theater | Open to the public | FREE
Join us before the Midwest debut of LIFTED! for a special conversation with Dr. Rennie Harris, founder and choreographer for Rennie Harris Puremovement. Harris, with hip-hop historian Dr. Jeannette Jones and UNL Dance department faculty, will discuss the centrality of dance to the history and culture of hip-hop, and explore the trajectory of one of the world’s most accomplished hip-hop dancers. This talk program is funded in part by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.
“The Basquiat of the U.S. Contemporary dance scene,” Lorenzo Rennie Harris has literally embodied the history of hip-hop dance. –London Times
More details at: https://go.unl.edu/epdo