Black Lucy and the Bard Preview
Preview: Season 50 Episode 1 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Explore Shakespeare’s love life in this ballet featuring music by Rhiannon Giddens.
Explore Shakespeare’s love life through the perspective of the “Dark Lady” in this work from Nashville Ballet based on poetry by Caroline Randall Williams and featuring an original score by GRAMMY winner Rhiannon Giddens.
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Major series funding for GREAT PERFORMANCES is provided by The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Arts Fund, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Sue...
Black Lucy and the Bard Preview
Preview: Season 50 Episode 1 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Explore Shakespeare’s love life through the perspective of the “Dark Lady” in this work from Nashville Ballet based on poetry by Caroline Randall Williams and featuring an original score by GRAMMY winner Rhiannon Giddens.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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Behind the Scenes of "Black Lucy and the Bard"
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Clip: S50 Ep1 | 5m 5s | Behind the Scenes of "Black Lucy and the Bard." (5m 5s)
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Clip: S50 Ep1 | 2m 32s | Caroline Randall Williams introduces a party that Lucy and Shakespeare may have attended. (2m 32s)
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Clip: S50 Ep1 | 3m 5s | Shakespeare (Owen Thorne) and Lucy (Claudia Monja) meet for the first time. (3m 5s)
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Major series funding for GREAT PERFORMANCES is provided by The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Arts Fund, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Sue...