Show

We Move in Color

Written by Wyatt Jackson & Robby Thomas
Music composed, produced & mixed by Gen “Genzo” Rubin
Get Up (from Remember Their Names) written by Wyatt Jackson, Gen Rubin and Cheryl Yie, mixed by Jimmy Douglass and Gen Rubin.
I’m Building Me a Home and I Shall Not Be Moved/We Shall Overcome produced by Joe Pigee

Additional Music:
Harlem Rag by Tom Turpin
Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin
The Wish Bone by Charlotte Blake

Artwork by Paul Goodnight

Photos by Lou Jones

Additional Images and animation by Gen Rubin

Story Design by Wyatt Jackson

Act 1

Scene 1 - Abundant Africa: From the Beginning
Vocalist: Anita Faye; Choreography: Sheryl Pollard-Thomas

Scene 2 - Captured
Choreography: Wyatt Jackson

Scene 3 - Enslaved  (350 Years)
Choreography: Wyatt Jackson

Scene 4 - Emancipation
Choreography: Joe González

Scene 5 - Reconstruction (1864)
Vocalist: Anita Faye

Scene 6 - Great Migration
Choreography: Wyatt Jackson

Scene 7 - Our Renaissance (1927)
Vocalist: Anita Faye
Choreography: Khalid Hill

Intermission

(African Mask animated art by Gen Rubin and Lou Jones)

Act 2

Scene 1 - Inspiration to Resist (1958)
Vocalist: Anita Faye

Scene 2 - We Got the Power (1967)
Choreography: Wyatt Jackson

Scene 3 - Love of Self (1973)
Choreography: Sheryl Pollard-Thomas

Scene 4 - Come Through the Door (1984)
Vocalist, Choreography: Wyatt Jackson

Scene 5 - That Vibe (1993)
Vocalist: Daysha J. Williams; Choreography: Wyatt Jackson

Scene 6 - Remember their Names
Vocalists: Anita Faye, Daysha J. Williams, Wyatt Jackson

Scene 7- Afrofuturism: Here and Now
Vocalists: Anita Faye, Wyatt Jackson, Daysha J. Williams
Choreography: Sheryl Pollard-Thomas, , Khalid Hill, Wyatt Jackson

Cast

Mother Africa - Anita Faye

Griot - Wyatt Jackson

Griot 2 - Daysha J. Williams

African Drummer - Stephen O’Neal

Griot 2 Understudy - Desirae Smith

Dancers: Desirae Smith, Daysha J. Williams, Destiny Delancy, Zakhele Grabowski, Judah Marable, Lexy Lattimore, Aiden Williams, Liberty Hull

Tech Crew

Production Manager/Stage Manager: Candis Hilton

QLab Programmer/Operator: Gen Rubin

Additional Recorded Musicians:

Julian Medeiros - Saxophone

Rodrigo Medeiros - Guitar

Farnell Newton - Trumpet and Trombone