The Gathering: A Place For Narrative Change: “Traditional” Ring Shout
The legendary McIntosh County Shouters will guide the community in a “traditional” Ring Shout on the Kennedy Center REACH Campus. Hosted by Curator Rashida Bumbray.
05.31
The Kennedy Center
A shout or Ring Shout is an ecstatic, transcendent religious ritual, first practiced by African slaves in the West Indies and the United States, in which worshipers move in a circle while shuffling, stomping, and clapping.
Join the legendary McIntosh County Shouters, principal practitioners of the Gullah Geechie Ring Shout, to guide the community in a collective “traditional” Ring Shout on the Kennedy Center REACH Campus. Curated and hosted by choreographer Rashida Bumbray, this outdoor demonstration combines dance practicies indigenous to West Africa—and preserved through the Gullah Geechee community—with folk music, call and response, and communal dance. This outdoor demonstration is meant to help pass down a practice housed within the African American tradition, and to relive a practice so deeply rooted in American history.
Artists
Rashida Bumbray
McIntosh County Shouters
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