Masquerade& TheHarlemRenaissance
A Glimpse into past performances at the Koresh Dance Company and Quintessence Theater Group.
Koresh Dance Masquerade performance of 2023. Following the dance company’s return in 2024, Hollow Apple, was a mysterious center piece, in the audience to imagine for themselves what is expected to read from this modern dance. It is the artistic director’s commentary that is equally as vague as its title, Hollow Apple. To then see them at a 2025 Koresh Connects event, a community event site specific to the South Philadelphia Mummer’s Museum.
Choreography by ROni Koresh
Koresh Dance Company
The 2023 Masquerade
Featuring
Live Opera Singing by Sage DeAgro-Ruopp
Artsi Philly Opera event with Sage DeAgro-Ruop & Patrick Wilhelm, 2023.
ARTSI Philly Gathering: Pasquale, People, and Priest.
2025
TheMasquerade & The Harlem Renaissance
Koresh Connects
The Masquerade @ South Philadelphia Mummers Museum in 2025.
FIRE! A World Premiere
By Marilyn Campbell-Lowe, Paul Oakley Stovall;
Dir. Raelle Myrick-Hodges
Choreography by Polanco Jones Jr. Oct. 8-Nov 02 2025
Quintessence Theater 2025
The Harlem Renaissance
From the most important writers during a time when African Americans introduced innovative movements in music and art, Coming together of Culture in Harlem New York.
Mother Courage by George Brecht
Black Artists’ Experience is FIRE!!
Sedgewick Theater Lobby, beginning of play with the players amongst the audience.
Contributing Writers to FIRE!!
Richard Bruce
Arthur Huff Fauset
Helene Johnson
Wallace Thurman
Gwendolyn Bennett
Langston Hughes
Countee Cullen
Zara Neale Hurston
Wallace Thurman
played by Kaisheem Fowler-Bryant, a central figure that brings us backstage, behind the publication that lends a omnipresent spirit to the assorted artists presenting their artwork, in a make-believe promo for FIRE!! a publication of Harlem Renaissance writers and poets, playwrights and actors/ actresses.
Death Bed Poem
Adapted to the stage
by Waring Cuney
This historical piece of poetry, fiction, and the collection of plays from the collaboration of Black artists known best by the artistic movement coming out of Harlem, NY.
