Name: In The Same Tongue
Start: 2024-09-26T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-09-29T15:30:00-04:00
Location: Robert J. Orchard Stage at the Paramount Center

SEP. 26–29, 2024
A dance legend and a celebrated composer collaborate to explore the powerful connections between and across forms, languages, and histories.
In the Same Tongue is a new, breathtaking work combining movement, sound, and language from the legendary Emmy-nominated dancer/choreographer, Dianne McIntyre. In the span of 80-minutes, McIntyre unites a brilliant company of dancers and musicians to reveal how dance and music “speak” to each other.
Reviving the spirit of McIntyre’s internationally celebrated dance company Sounds in Motion, In the Same Tongue explores artistic legacies, like 1920s Harlem salons and the Black Arts Movement of the 60’s & 70’s, by bringing dynamic dancers, writers, and musicians together to manifest connections on stage in the most unexpected ways.
With original music by celebrated composer Diedre Murray, and working with the poetry of Obie-winning playwright Ntozake Shange, In the Same Tongue shows audiences how language—in all its many forms—can create worlds of beauty, alienation, harmony, tension, or peace. The hallmarks of McIntyre’s stunning body of work, spanning decades and innumerable stage productions, as well as creating the choreography for PBS television features Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper and the feature film based on Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, are all on glorious display in this captivating, new dance celebration.