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