Choreographic Works
Saturday's Child (1948)
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dancer
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Creation Date
1948
Sound
Title: Saturday's Child
Date: 1925
Type: Text
Live/Recorded: live
Recording Artist: Countee Cullen
Details: Poem "Saturday's Child" by Countee Cullen
Identifier
00024
Description
Originally performed by Donald McKayle himself, Saturday’s Child features the soloist speaking a cadenced, rhyming poem by Countee Cullen as she limps down stage in tattered flannel shirt and ragged pants. The lament of an impoverished birth and deprived childhood is realized both in the words of the poem and in the physical movements: a broken body, huddled over, struggling to balance and make a stand.
Source: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/photo-of-gesel-mason-in-donald-mckayles-saturdays-child-balanced-on-one-leg/0QFiUof5Wu-Iqw
Source: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/photo-of-gesel-mason-in-donald-mckayles-saturdays-child-balanced-on-one-leg/0QFiUof5Wu-Iqw
