Reimagine Virtual Candlelight Vigil with The Lazours and Larissa Velez-Jackson
Wed. April 08
5:00pm - 6:30pm
This is a digital event. You should receive information in your ticket or from the host about how to join online.
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Reimagine has been hosting candlelight vigils since March 2020, the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to break down taboos and hold space for all that we've lost. This gathering features the creative team behind Night Side Songs, a new musical at Lincoln Center Theater which the New York Times describes as "warm, rich and enveloping." With a stirring folk score by the acclaimed duo The Lazours, Night Side Songs explores the in-between spaces of illness and mortality. Informed by conversations with nurses, doctors, patients, and caregivers, the show is a testament to the fragile, fierce humanity that carries us through the night and to the healing that can happen when we truly listen. Choreographer and cancer survivor Larissa Velez-Jackson will lead the honor ceremony.
Daniel Lazour and Patrick Lazour are brothers, musicians, and music theater writers. We Live in Cairo, their musical about the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, was directed by Obie Award-winner Taibi Magar at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) and at New York Theatre Workshop.
Larissa Velez-Jackson is a New York-based choreographer, movement educator and multi-platform artist who creates improvisational strategies in their original performance practice called Star Pû Method. Called “an adroit physical comedian” who “seems to be questioning entrenched conventions of contemporary performance” in The New York Times, LVJ blends movement, digital and vocal sound, storytelling and intergenerational community practice. As an ongoing blood cancer survivor since 2019, LVJ is an advocate of the healing potential of art and body mind spirit practice.
About Reimagine
Reimagine is a nonprofit organization catalyzing a uniquely powerful community–people of different backgrounds, ages, races, and faiths (and no faith) coming together in the hopes of healing ourselves and the world. We specifically support each other in facing adversity, loss, and mortality and – at our own pace – actively channeling life's biggest challenges into meaningful action and growth.
