Spelman College Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Arts hosts "Salt City: An Afrofuturistic Choreopoem"

Aku Kadogo, Spelman College Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Arts, will host “Salt City: An Afrofuturistic Choreopoem,” Saturday, April 25, at 6 p.m. Directed by Kadogo and written by renowned poet Jessica Care Moore, the choreopoem, a form of dramatic expression that combines poetry, dance, music, and song, will be performed with the help of students from Spelman and Morehouse colleges. Set sometime in the past in the salt mines below the city of Detroit, the production goes “black to the future” to 2071 Detroit. The music, curated by DJ Kai Alcé, is inspired by Underground Resistance (Mad Mike Banks and Jeff Mills) and the Techno music scene from Detroit.

Free and open to the public, this event will be held in the Baldwin Burroughs Auditorium of the Rockefeller Fine Arts Building on Spelman’s campus (GPS Address: 440 Westview Drive, Atlanta, GA 30310). For more information, visit www.spelman.edu.