Events
Winter Jazz Fest (NYC)
MANHATTAN MARATHON @ (LE) POISSON ROUGE
https://www.winterjazzfest.com/artist-samora-pinderhughes-24
Samora Pinderhughes European Tour
Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Vitoria Jazz Fest, Felix Mertis Amsterdam, & North Sea Jazz Festival
Dani Murcia + Koa Ho Album Release Show
Jehbreal supports friends and colleagues Dani Murcia and Koa Ho for their album releases at Public Records.
aja monet: with Weedie Braimah, Jeremiah Edwards, Craig Harris, Jehbreal Jackson, and Samora Pinderhughes
Through an immersive interchange of spoken word and song, monet will share new poetry composed in response to the large-scale portraits on view, which blend themes of Black love, resistance, joy, and community building. Supporting monet will be pianist and composer Samora Pinderhughes and percussionist Weedie Braimah—both collaborators on monet’s forthcoming album, when the poems do what they do—as well as trombonist Craig Harris and bassist Jeremiah Edwards, with vocals from Jehbreal Jackson.
“The Healing Project” Samora Pinderhughes and Friends at Carnegie Hall
Jehbreal joins pianist-composer Samora Pinderhughes as he leads world-class musicians, composers, poets, and others in a new multidisciplinary work that explores the daily realities of violence, incarceration, policing, and detention in US communities. Combining musical compositions with audio interviews and raw testimonials from 15 states across the country, The Healing Project is a condemnation of racial capitalism and the prison industrial complex and an artistic celebration of resilience, healing, and resistance. Making its NY premiere, the concert version of The Healing Project is co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, and produced by Anna Deavere Smith, Vijay Iyer, and Glenn Ligon. For more information visit Carnegie Hall.org.
Samora Pinderhughes: GRIEF
Jehbreal joins acclaimed pianist-vocalist-composer and multidisciplinary artist Samora Pinderhughes at The Kitchen in NYC. On the heels of his world premiere of The Healing Project, a multi-pronged work that springs from interviews the artist conducted with people of color in 15 states surrounding experiences of incarceration and structural violence across the United States, Pinderhughes further expands his work of creating communal space for grieving and healing. One element of The Healing Project is his latest album, GRIEF. At Westbeth, Pinderhughes and collaborators will perform newly reimagined selections from the album within the installation, creating bold new performances that meld songcraft, ritual, and conversation alongside a rotating presentation of moving image works to be screened at intervals between live performances. The films serve as companion pieces to the GRIEF album, and present Pinderhughes’s work with his collective RSCK (alongside Christian Padron, Kassim Norris, and Ray Neutron), as well as the result of long-standing collaborations with filmmakers Christian Padron, Josh Begley, Vashni Korin, and Daniel Pfeffer.
Dancers Amplified Jam Session At MOBB MIA
Join Activist Movers! Jam sessions are a series of collaborative virtual and in person events hosted by Dancers Amplified and our proud partner organization, Black dance change makers. These events are driven by our Global Active Practices, a living document created through lived experience, research, and data collection that outlines methods of action towards diversity, equity, inclusion and access. Tickets are $10/ the JAM session is included with full scholar forum package. For more information visit DancersAmplified.com and/or MOBBallet.org
MOBB MIA Symposium
10:00-10:20 In this hybrid scholars forum, Jehbreal will join other scholars in sharing their work regarding diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in dance education and performance environments. He will give a talk on his forthcoming chapter “Ballet as Scientific Inquiry: Incorporating Ballet’s Broader Cultural History in a Syllabus and in the Studio”.
3:25-3:45 Later in the day, Jehbreal will screen and discuss the grande pas de deux from his cineballet CANON. For more information and to register please visit MOBBallet.org
Celebrate Brooklyn! Aja Monet & Vic Mensa
Jehbreal performs with Aja Monet to celebrate the release of her single “Give My Regards to Brooklyn” as she opens for Vic Mensa.
The Healing Project Exhibition
Jehbreal is featured as a collaborator in Samora Pinderhughes’ exhibition The Healing Project on view from March 24-September 4, 2022. The Healing Project takes multiple forms: as musical songs, films, an exhibition, community gatherings, live performances, and a digital library of audio interviews. The works are rooted in interviews and relationships that Pinderhughes has fostered since 2011 and have been formed by over 100 storytelling and artistic collaborators. At the center of the project are the intergenerational voices of individuals across the country, including folks incarcerated in prisons and detention centers. Their stories, experiences, and ideas serve as the foundation for The Healing Project’s vision for societal transformation.
The artworks presented as part of The Healing Project spotlight the violence of our present day structures and offer profound possibilities for our collective recovery. This recovery is full-bodied: emotional, mental, and physical. By interrogating the intersections of profit and violence, the artists and contributors of The Healing Project charge us toward a necessary revolution built on self and collective care. For more information on the exhibition, to visit in person or explore it digitally please visit YBCA.org
Minton's Playhouse
Jehbreal presents a night of love songs that range from romantic love, to communal love, to divine love, healing from the loss of love, to the love of self.
Black Brown & Blue
“Black Brown and Blue,” is a musical stage production about culture, community, and police relations. Let’s find healing through artistic expression. It will be an incredible event including artistic, intellectual, formerly incarcerated, and spiritual voices (all of which found in many singular individuals who are participating) that range the gamut of backgrounds. Please join us for this virtual event!
Artist in Residence: Samora Pinderhughes
Thursday, December 16
7:30 PM est
Jehbreal joins Samora Pinderhughes during his residency at Public Records in NYC. “For its inaugural iteration, Samora Pinderhughes brings “3 Questions [or making space for everything that’s happening]” to The Sound Room. Comprising of three shows over the course of the fall season, the first being the most pared down sonically and inviting guests including the Argus Quartet, Dani Murcia, Elliott Skinner, Jehbreal Jackson, Joshua Bennett, among others to be announced.
Artist in Residence: Samora Pinderhughes
Thursday, October 21
7:30 PM est
Jehbreal joins Samora Pinderhughes during his residency at Public Records in NYC. “For its inaugural iteration, Samora Pinderhughes brings “3 Questions [or making space for everything that’s happening]” to The Sound Room. Comprising of three shows over the course of the fall season, the first being the most pared down sonically and inviting guests including the Argus Quartet, Dani Murcia, Elliott Skinner, Jehbreal Jackson, Joshua Bennett, among others to be announced.
Ballet 22 Summer Season
August 27, September 3-5
"On August 27, the company will present The Best of Ballet22 at Center Stage Theater in Santa Barbara. A mixed bill of classical excerpts from Giselle, Le Corsaire, and Carmen, the program will also include the joyous and celebratory Juntos by Joshua Stayton, a technical and poignant solo, I Will Follow You Too, by Jehbreal Jackson, and a reprise of Heartbeats."- Broadway World
Lake Tahoe Dance Festival 2021 (live stream)
Monday, August 2-Wednesday, August 4, 2021
6pm PDT on Monday-midnight on Wednesday
Tune in to see New York City Ballet principal Ashley Bouder in Jehbreal's "Anima's In Decision" which was commissioned for the festival. The 9th Annual Lake Tahoe Dance Festival will be available for viewing online for a limited time, starting Monday, August 2nd at 6PM PDT and ending Wednesday, August 4th at midnight.
Lake Tahoe Dance Festival
Jehbreal will premiere a new solo from his next cineballet The Death of Anima Faven in collaboration with New York City Ballet principal Ashley Bouder. Tickets are on sale now at laketahoedancecollective.org. Ticketing is limited and available by socially distanced, two-person pods. Organizers at the Lake Tahoe Dance Collective plan to provide ticketing in tiered waves due to potential changes in capacity limitations in accordance with guidelines from the California Department of Public Health.
Carnegie Hall Performance of Grief
Grief is a new project of revolutionary songs by pianist-vocalist-composer Samora Pinderhughes. It speaks truth to power, calling out the sufferings caused by racial capitalism, policing and prison systems, and oppressive ideologies.
https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2021/04/27/Samora-Pinderhughes-0800PM
Ballet 22 Digital Spring Gala
April 16th-18th & 23rd-25, 2021
1pm 5pm & 8pm pst
Join us for our Digital Spring Gala 2021, where Ballet22 will feature a range of classical works, including Grand Pas Classique and "The Precious Stones" from Sleeping Beauty, along with a contemporary piece titled I Will Follow You Too by Jehbreal Jackson, and a new commission by Ben Needham-Wood.
https://www.ballet22.com/events
Photo credit: Rob Suguitan
Shakespeare and Black Lives (University of California Irvine)
In this public conversation, Jeremie Harris will discuss his role as Claudio in New York Public Theatre’s 2019 production of Much Ado About Nothing, which featured an all-Black cast and was set in Atlanta during Stacy Abrams’ campaign for governor of Georgia. We will share clips from the production. Mr. Harris will be in conversation with Jehbreal Jackson, MFA Dance ’20.