Choreographic Works
Jumping the Broom (2005)
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Creation Date
2005
Sound
Title: "If Yesterday Could Only Be Tomorrow"
Date: 1991
Type: music
Live/Recorded: recorded
Recording Artist: Nat King Cole Trio
Type: Text
Live/Recorded: recorded
Recording Artist: David Roussève
Identifier
00021
Description
Equal parts protest and dialogue, Jumping the Broom was created before same sex marriage was legal. The piece juxtaposes emotional personal narratives around the ban on slave marriage with personal narratives around the contemporary ban on gay marriage in an attempt to elicit an empathetic response from the viewer towards same-sex marriage. (Jumping the broom is a ritual of forbidden marriage performed by American slaves.)
Source: https://www.davidrousseve.com/jumping-the-broom#:~:text=Equal parts protest and dialogue,same sex marriage was legal.
Source: https://www.davidrousseve.com/jumping-the-broom#:~:text=Equal parts protest and dialogue,same sex marriage was legal.
