![]() PT considers all of our initiatives as community-engaged, community-invested and community-necessitated. Since 2000, PT has toured dynamic, original performances which Cristal has branded, Neo-Spirituals-a’capella musicals with a fusion of styles from Negro Spirituals to the Blues, Jazz, NeoSoul, R&B, hip-hop and spoken word. ![]() About the Companyįounded by Houston native, Cristal Chanelle Truscott, Progress Theatre is a nationally and internationally-touring ensemble committed to using theatre as anti-racism engagement to encourage social consciousness, cross-community dialogue, healing and cultural awareness. Additional funding for The Burnin', provided by Hi-ARTS (Producers of the Hip-Hop Theater Festival), Alternate ROOTS and the Network of Ensemble Theaters (NET). The Creation Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Mellon Foundation and by the National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Grant, co-commissioned by Junebug Productions in partnership with Hartford Stage. The Burnin’ is made possible with funding by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ (NEFA) National Theater Project, with lead funding from The Andrew W. Re-imagining and re-examining these American tragedies, The Burnin’ invites audiences to look deeper into personal and communal definitions of freedom, empowerment and the course of “progress” we all have the power to chart. Weaving dialogue and original song (from the Blues to spoken word and hip-hop), The Burnin’ traces how we receive and redefine legacies of identity to accommodate our contemporary realities. Following a group of clubgoers through catastrophe to assess complex intersections of race, gender and community during times of trauma and survival, the piece not only questions a multitude of stereotypes, it actively answers and dis-assembles them. Through fictionalized locales, The Burnin’ charts sociopolitical consistencies before, during and after both disasters. nightclub tragedies the Rhythm Night Club Fire of Natchez, MI (1940) and the E2 Club Stampede of Chicago, IL (2003). The Burnin’ is a "Neo-Spiritual" (an a'capella musical) inspired by two major U.S. As history repeats itself, The Burnin’ straddles time between these two worlds, examining the possibility that the more things change, the more they stay the same. When disaster strikes in both spaces and places, all involved are forced to examine the meaning of community, agency and identity in the blink of an eye. As the African American community prepares for the return of hometown hero Band Man, scheduled to play at the local juke, the White American community organizes it’s Annual Pilgrimage Pageant a celebration of Southern hierarchy as it was “Before the War.” Fast forward 75 years and post-Great Migration, urban residents in the metropolis of Sittay gather to critique the policies and politics behind contemporary headlines at a spoken word/hip hop spot. It’s 1940 in the fictional City of Antebellum.
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