MUSIC / PERFORMANCE

Alva Rogers: Topsy Turvy

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 & 4, 2023
7:30 PM

JAM Performance Festival
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, Midtown, Manhattan

$5-$15
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In conjunction with its Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces exhibition, MoMA puts on performances by people who played at that pioneering 1970/80s Black Art gallery. Tonight vocalist/dramatist Alva Rogers teases out the implications of Topsy Turvy dolls, fusing white girls upside from black girls (or mammies), crafted by slaves under duress for the use of their owner’s children. It only heats things up that the musical back-up is provided by guitarist Brandon Ross (on banjo!) and violinist Jason K. Hwang. Also: PUPPETS!

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