Freddie Ballentine / Kunal Lahiry
Our People
Experience Our People: voice, piano and ballroom collide in a powerful performance.
With Our People, Grammy Award-winning tenor Freddie Ballentine and pianist Kunal Lahiry create a space in which music and ballroom converge. Together with performers from the Belgian ballroom scene, they present a performance about the search for self-identification - and the courage to make it visible.
Ballroom, which emerged in 1970s and 1980s New York within POC queer communities, serves as a living practise of expression, identity, and community, with vogue as one of its performative languages.
The precision and intimacy of chamber music engage in a surprising dialogue with the sharpness and expressiveness of the movement language. Music and the body amplify one another, opening up new ways of listening and seeing.
Freddie Ballentine and Kunal Lahiry invite you on a fearless musical journey, transcending loneliness, doom, memory, and revolution, towards their ultimate destination: hope. The programme is as dazzling and diverse as its performers: think Nina Simone, Franz Schubert, Ricky Ian Gordon, and Margaret Bonds, among others. In the interplay between voice, piano, and ballroom, Our People evolves into a shared space in which past and present converge.
Ballroom, which emerged in 1970s and 1980s New York within POC queer communities, serves as a living practise of expression, identity, and community, with vogue as one of its performative languages.
The precision and intimacy of chamber music engage in a surprising dialogue with the sharpness and expressiveness of the movement language. Music and the body amplify one another, opening up new ways of listening and seeing.
Freddie Ballentine and Kunal Lahiry invite you on a fearless musical journey, transcending loneliness, doom, memory, and revolution, towards their ultimate destination: hope. The programme is as dazzling and diverse as its performers: think Nina Simone, Franz Schubert, Ricky Ian Gordon, and Margaret Bonds, among others. In the interplay between voice, piano, and ballroom, Our People evolves into a shared space in which past and present converge.