Dance Theatre of Harlem's video: DTH On Demand: Creating Passage - Black Women Creators

Set to an evocative score by Jessie Montgomery, Claudia Schreier’s Passage offers a moving reflection on the fortitude of the human spirit, created in recognition of the 400th anniversary of the arrival of enslaved Africans to Virginia in 1619. Passage was commissioned by the Virginia Arts Festival in partnership with American Evolution. In this video, Watch Claudia Schreier and Jessie Montgomery discuss the artistic process in the creation of Passage with DTH Company Artist Sanford Placide Support for Passage was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional commissioning funds provided by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation through Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Women Who Move Us initiative, O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation and the Princess Grace Foundation-USA, the City of Norfolk, Virginia, the Friedrich Ludwig Diehn Fund of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. DTH On Demand is generously sponsored by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Learn more about DTH On Demand: https://bit.ly/2Mg9Z2Q Visit our website to sign up for our mailing list and learn more about DTH: https://bit.ly/3gVcwxz Support DTH's Forward Fund Today! : https://bit.ly/2VkZzU6 Shop our store: https://bit.ly/35MViNE