Perspective: Washington is a politics town. Can the Kennedy Center make it a destination for political art?
The Direct Current Festival focuses on contemporary artists like MacArthur Foundation Awardee Tyshawn Sorey. By Anne Midgette Anne Midgette Classical music critic Email Bio Follow Classical music critic March 22 at 9:00 AM Direct Current is the Kennedy Center’s bid for the cutting edge. Last spring, the center held the two-week interdisciplinary festival for the first time — and nearly every show sold out.
The festival also features the premiere of “When we lost our shadows” by Du Yun and Khaled Jarrar, which focuses on human migration. Take the video oratorio “Where we lost our shadows,” by the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun — now also known as the woman who wore the pompom dress to the Grammys — and the Palestinian filmmaker Khaled Jarrar.
In his songs, Kahane wrestles with the issues that have continued to divide the country in the years since his trip — trying to identify our shared values while not wanting to blithely whitewash over differences, which can, he says, “have life or death consequences.
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