Program

  • Welcome – Dr. Andrée Reeves, Director of Women’s Studies
  • Guerilla Introduction – some of the performers welcome you
  • Sisters We - "Shadow of Eve" (music and lyrics by Janet Underwood) "Sit Down, Sister" (spiritual, composer unknown, arranged by Sisters We) "Mothers of Our Country" (music and lyrics by Janet Underwood)
  • Dave Gallaher (Microwave Dave) – a tribute to Mother Teresa, source of spiritual funding
  • Beth Norwood - a tribute to Isadora Duncan. Music: "Hoje Eu Quero Sair So" (Tonight I Want To Go Out Alone), by Lenine
  • Sisters We - "Motherless Child" (spiritual, music by Harry Thacker Burleigh, arranged by Janet Underwood) "Shoes" (music and lyrics by Jill Fletcher)
  • Rebecca Darby – Marilyn Monroe Musings
  • Sylvia Sycamore Toffel – a tribute to jazz pianist Billy Tipton. Music: Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet

Intermission with Isadora (short pause for stretching)

  • Ann Knipschild, oboe, from Six Metamorphoses after Ovid by Benjamin Britten.
     Movements 1. Pan/Syrinx, 3. Niobe , and  6. Arethusa
  • Weird Sisters Hand in Hand – "For Frida"- Choreography by Honor November and company. 
    Music, "Intermezzo," by Manuel M. Ponce
  • Marah Bobilin, soprano, and Christopher Joel Carter IV, piano – "Lotos Isles" 
    Music by Mrs. H.H.A. Beach; lyrics from a poem by Tennyson)
  • Bette Yeager as Virginia Woolf (the Shakespeare’s Sister scene from Yeager’s theatrical adaptation of Woolf’s book A Room of One’s Own)
  • Nikkya Moore celebrating Katherine Dunham 
    Music, "Maria, Maria," by Carlos Santana