Moss Vault: Jenny Scheinman's Kannapolis: A Moving Portrait (Online Event)
Venue: Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Time: 8:00 AM - 11:55 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre
Cost: Free

Description:
The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech continues their online series the Moss Vault with Jenny Scheinman's "Kannapolis: A Moving Portrait" starting on Monday, May 11, 2020 at 5:00 pm through Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at midnight.

Just because you can’t currently attend performances in the Moss Arts Center's spectacular theatre doesn’t mean you can’t experience unforgettable music, dance, and theatre right where you are.

For a limited time, we’re raising the curtain on past performances from our archives. Find a new performance here each week. Each performance will only be available for two days, so don’t miss your chance to see what we’ve released from our video vault.

Captivating visuals from small towns in the 1930s and 1940s are set to an original live score created by composer, singer, and violinist Jenny Scheinman. Depression-era filmmaker H. Lee Waters documented more than 118 small towns in the southeastern United States between 1936 and 1942.

He filmed regular people going about their lives—mill workers streaming out of factories, a mother and daughter dancing on a dirt road, an old man reading a wartime headline. Scheinman’s score of folk songs and fiddle music accompany this footage in a new film by director Finn Taylor. These iconic images set to Scheinman’s music speak deeply to any community today, as they did to the towns portrayed at the time.

The performance was performed live on Friday, October 27, 2017.

To view the performance, visit: https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/moss-vault.html.

The performance will only be available for three days before being removed.

For more information, visit: https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2020/04/mac-virtualprogramming.html or https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/moss-vault.html or https://www.facebook.com/artscenteratvt or call 540-231-5300.

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