BREATHING FREE
a visual album
featuring excerpts from Beethoven’s Fidelio, Negro spirituals, and works by Harry T. Burleigh, Florence Price, Langston Hughes, Anthony Davis, and Thulani Davis,
Technical Director - Max Silverman
In 2018, Heartbeat collaborated with 100 incarcerated singers in six prison choirs to create a contemporary American Fidelio told through the lens of Black Lives Matter. In 2020 — the year of George Floyd’s murder, a pandemic which ravages our prison population, and the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth — we curate a song cycle, brought to life in vivid music videos, mingling excerpts from Fidelio, Negro spirituals, and works by Black composers and lyricists, which together manifest a dream of justice, equity...and breathing free.
6 virtual performances on Youtube
December 4-12, 2020
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Director // Ethan Heard
Filmmaker // Anaiis Cisco
Creative Producer // Ras Dia
Co-Music Director & Arranger (Fidelio) // Daniel Schlosberg
Co-Music Director // Jacob Ashworth
Movement Director // Emma Jaster
Director of Photography (Los Angeles) // Kathryn Boyd Batstone
Director of Photography (New York & Chicago) // Jacob Mallin
1st AC/Gaffer (Los Angeles) // Celine Layous
1st AC/Gaffer (New York & Chicago) // Matt Iacono
Live Switcher and Technical Director // Max Silverman
Associate Movement Director // Tamrin Goldberg
Arranger (Malcolm X, Balm in Gilead)/Associate Music Director // Sean Mayes
Assistant Director // Mar Cox
Stage Manager // Jessica Emmanus
Sound Editor // Gleb Kanasevich
Sound Mixer // Sam Torres
Music Assistant/Orchestra Manager // Mona Seyed-Bolorforosh
Director of Education // Ashley Renée Watkins
Repertoire Consultant // Anthony McGlaun