"three colored girls: In Conversation" at Spelman College Explores Women of Color in the Arts

Spelman College presents “three colored girls: In Conversation,” Tuesday, April 19, 2016, at 6 p.m. The talk will feature Spelman’s 2015-2016 Distinguished Visiting Scholar Dianne McIntyre, poet/playwright Ntozake Shange and Visiting Scholar Aku Kadogo.

Kadogo was in the original Broadway production of Shange’s “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf” and McIntyre choreographed the television adaptation of the play. The three artistic icons will discuss their collaborative theatrical work as well as their perspectives about the state of women of color in the arts.

McIntyre, has choreographed scores of concert dances, four Broadway shows, 30 regional theatre productions, a London West End musical, three feature films, three television productions, stage movement for recording artists and five original full-length dance dramas.

Aku Kadogo is an international theatre director, choreographer, performer, educator and cultural arts curator. She has directed and created theatre works in Australia, Korea, Europe and the United States. This year, she is a visiting scholar with the Spelman Drama and Dance department.

Shange’s play “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf” won an Obie Award and received Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award nominations. The play is a collection of monologues, poems, and movement that describe the trials and tribulations caused by racism and sexism of seven African-American women.

Free and open to the public, this event will be held in the Camilla Olivia Hanks Cosby, Ed.D. Academic Center Auditorium (GPS Address: 440 Westview Drive, Atlanta 30310). For more information, visit www.spelman.edu.