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In The Same Tongue

In the Same Tongue

Presented 2023-2024: Walker Art Center, ASU Gammage, Duke Arts, Apollo Theater and ArtsEmerson

2024 

In Tune

American Dance Festival Footprints Program
ADF Student Ensemble
Recorded music:  Mary Lou Williams, Betty Carter, Abbey Lincoln
July, 2024 in Durham, NC

2023 

In the Same Tongue

Dianne McIntyre Group
Music composition for live quartet – Diedre Murray
Poetry – Ntozake Shange
World premiere – Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
October, 2023

2019 

If Not, When? 

Dianne McIntyre Group
Music live piano and vocals Amina Claudine Myers
Dancers: Careitha Davis, Matia Johnson, Dianne McIntyre,
Arts for Art Vision Festival
June 2019 at Roulette, Brooklyn, NYC

2018 

Tribute to Cecil Taylor 

Dianne McIntyre, Dance
Rod Williams, Piano
Roulette and Art for Arts, Brooklyn, NYC
December 18, 2018

2017 

Speaking in the Same Tongue (Work in Process) 

McIntyre Ensemble
Music Rod Williams, Gerald Brazel, Vincent Henry live
Developed in residencies at Baryshnikov Arts Center, NY and Dance Place, DC
Informal presentation Dance Place, Washington, DC

Dancing Memories

Verb Ballets
Music various recording artists
Text by elders from Cleveland and Cuba
Premiere Eliza Bryant Adult Day Care, Cleveland, OH

2016 

Journey to Memory Falls

Spelman College Dance/Theatre Ensemble
Music Spelman College faculty and guest artists
Live Text by the Ensemble
Premiere Spelman College, Atlanta, GA

When We Come to It

St. Louis Dance Ensemble
Poem: Maya Angelou – Music: Lester Bowie
Dance St. Louis/Touhill Performing Arts Ctr. St. Louis, MO

Change

Dance Theatre of Harlem
Music traditional spirituals – Spelman College Glee Club
Premiere Columbia, SC
New York premiere, NY City Center

2015 

we carry our homes with us which enables us to fly

McIntyre solo Commissioned by New York Live Arts – Bill T. Jones/Dianne McIntyre in alternate solos Music by Marcos Balter performed by yMusic live Premiere New York Live Arts, NYC 

A Forgotten Moon-Song

Philadanco
Music William Catanzaro
Premiere Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA

2014 

She Who Carries the Sky

Solo for Roxane D’Orleans Juste of Limon Dance Company
Music R. Carlos Nakai and nature
Premiere April 2014 Joyce Theater, NYC 

Time is Time 

McIntyre Ensemble
Commissioned by New York Live Arts for James Baldwin Festival
Music live piano Onaje Allan Gumbs
Premiere April 2014 NYLA, NYC 

2013 

The Voice of the Blues 

Ohio State University dance students
Music – Traditional
Premiere November 2013 Capitol Theatre, Columbus, OH 

2012 

Life’s Force 2012 

McIntyre 40th Anniversary Company of Sounds in Motion
Music Ahmed Abdullah and Ensemble
American Dance Guild Festival
September, 2012 Alvin Ailey Citicorps Theater, NYC 

A Son is Given 

Co-choreographer and consultant
Music Myron Davis – Producer New Community Bible Fellowship
Premiere December, 2012 Hanna Theatre – Cleveland, OH 

why I had to dance 

McIntyre ensemble
Ntozake Shange Choreopoem
Premiere Oberlin College and PlayhouseSquare – February 2012 

Unexpected Journeys 

Oberlin theatre students
Writers – the students; director Caroline Jackson Smith
Premiere Oberlin College and PlayhouseSquare – February 2012 

2011 

The Nina Simone Project

Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Music – Nina Simone
Premiere – Spring 2011, Dallas, TX 

Dancing on a Dream 

Dancing Wheels
Music various artists plus Gloria Gaynor (live)
Premiere – Spring 2011, Cleveland, OH 

The Summit 

University of Michigan student dancers and musicians
Live music – Bo Diddley, Eric Dolphy, Dizzy Gillespie
Premiere February 2011, Ann Arbor, MI 

Up the Road a-Piece 

Eleone Dance Theatre
Premiere May 2011, Philadelphia, PA 

2010 

Just Yesterday 

GroundWorks Dance Theatre
Music – Olu Dara
Premiere – February 2010 Breen Theatre, Cleveland OH 

The Best Location 

Collaborators: Johnny Coleman, installation artist and Bernard Matambo, writer August, 2010 at The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH

2009

If you don’t know… 

McIntyre solo for Fly: Five First Ladies of Dance
651 Arts Brooklyn,
Premiere May 30, 2009 
Music –
George Caldwell. Olu Dara, Gamble & Huff

Sweet Radio Radicals 

Dancing Wheels
Music – Various female artists of 20th century
Premiere May 2009

Three Inner Thoughts 

Music – Natalie Gilbert, recorded
Poetry – Ntozake Shange
Cleveland State University student 

All You Ever Wanted 

Music – The Black Keys, recorded
Akron Firestone High School students 

2008

Boundless Journey 

Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Music – Traditional Spirituals 

Club! 

Music live – JJ Kaufman, Greg Ketchum, Khalid Saleem
College at Brockport SUNY students 

2007

Pieces of Pieces 

Music Olu Dara
Premiere – Schomburg Center – New York, NY 

Front Porch Lies 

Oberlin College students 

2006

Lyric Fire 

Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
Poems – Paul Laurence Dunbar 

2005

Daughter of a Buffalo Soldier 

Cleveland Contemporary Dance Theatre 

2003

Black and White on Brown 

University of Illinois students 

2001

Spiral Dance 

Music – Walker Jones
Premiere – South Fallsburg, NY 

1999

Invincible Flower 

Music – Lester Bowie (1998-99)
Premiere – Jacobs Pillow, Walker Arts Center 

1998

Song 

Music – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Premiere – Carnegie Hall, New York City 

1997

A Brand New People on the Planet 

Music – Olu Dara
Premiere – New York City – Aaron Davis Hall 

1996

Too Much In Love 

For Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Company
Music – Denver live ensemble 

1994

Susanna Jones 

Music – Olu Dara
Text – Langston Hughes
Premiere – 29 July, Opening Ceremony, National Black Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA

Wade in the Water 

Music – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Premiere – 29 July, Opening Ceremony, National Black Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA

1993

Red Dance 

Music – Olu Dara
Premiere – May, Memphis State University, Memphis, TN 

Selected Gems 

Text and vocal sound score – dancers
Accompaniment – Susan Chess
Premiere – March, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 

Set Me As A Seal Upon Thine Heart

Music – Olu Dara
Premiere – October, Dance Theater Workshop, New York City 

Why I Sing the Blues 

Music – Olu Dara
Premiere – October, Dance Theater Workshop, New York City 

1992

Love Poems to God 

Music and poetry – Hannibal Lokumbe
Premiere – 8 June, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City 

1991

Blues On Top O’ Blues

Work Holler Blues

The Lullaby Blues 

Bettie’s New Blue Dress Blues 

From Time to Time Blues 

Blues On Top O’ Blues 

Music – Olu Dara
Premiere – June, Center Stage Theater, Atlanta, GA 

How Long Brethren? 

Original choreography by Helen Tamiris (1937)
Re-created by McIntyre for Federal Theater Festival
Music – Amina Claudine Myers
Premiere – May, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 

1989

From Natchez to New York 

Music – Olu Dara
Premiere – Fall, Winter Garden, World Financial Center, New York City 

Jump Over the Moon 

Ecstasy 

Blue Haze 

Summer Dances 

Wildflower on a Precipice 

Music – Don Pullen
Premiere – Fall, Winter Garden, World Financial Center, New York City


Poem in White Light

Accompaniment – Nature sounds
Premiere – Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 

1988

Boogie in Bop Time 

Music – Mary Lou Williams
Premiere – December, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 

Circle of Soul 

Music – Olu Dara
Premiere – 8 July, Central Park, New York City 

The Coming of Eagles 

Vocal accompaniment – Gwendolyn Nelson-Fleming and Avery Brooks
Premiere – Harlem Urban Development Council 

In Living Color 

Music – Olu Dara and Traditional
Premiere – October, War Memorial Building, Trenton, NJ 

Kingsmen 

Music – Duke Ellington
Premiere – 5 May, Sounds In Motion Studio, Harlem, NY 

Running, Running 

Music – Lawrence D. (Butch) Morris
Premiere – 5 May, Sounds In Motion Studio, Harlem, NY 

1987

Ancient to the Future 

Music – Art Ensemble of Chicago
Premiere – July, Paris 

Gratitude

Music – Don Pullen
Premiere – New York City Hospital Authority 

1986

Sigh of the Rock 

Music – 1950s rock and roll
Premiere – 10 January, Joyce Theater, New York City 

Their Eyes Were Watching God (A Dance Adventure in Southern Blues) 

Music – Olu Dara and Lawrence D. (Butch) Morris
Premiere – 25 June, j.a.m., New York City 

1985

Fragment 

Music – Olu Dara
Premiere – Philadelphia, PA 

The Queen’s Suite 

Music – Duke Ellington
Premiere – May, Aaron Davis Hall, City College, New York City

1984

Mississippi Talks, Ohio Walks 

Music – Olu Dara
Premiere – August, Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center, New York City

Take-Off From a Forced Landing

Music – Lawrence D. (Butch) Morris and Nat King Cole
Premiere – 19 June, Joyce Theater, New York City 

1983

Eubie Blake Suite 

Valse Marion 

You’re Lucky to Me 

Eubie Dubie

Music – Eubie Blake
Premiere – February, Symphony Space, New York City 

We Are Americans Too 

Music – Eubie Blake
Premiere – February, Symphony Space, New York City 

Blue Thoughts 

Music – Eubie Blake
Premiere – February, Symphony Space, New York City 

Children of the Air 

Music – Cecil Taylor
Premiere – March, London 

Fat’s Boogie 

Music – Fats Domino
Premiere – Dancemobile production, New York City 

Flashback 

Music – Anthony Davis
Premiere – June, Small’s Paradise, New York City 

Harlem Night Song 

Music – Craig Harris
Premiere – 8 May, Museum of the City of New York 

1982

Eye of the Crocodile 

Music – Cecil Taylor
Premiere – 27 May, Judson Memorial Church, NewYork City 

1981

Duo 

Music – Charli Persip
Premiere – June, Symphony Space, New York City 

Etude in Free 

Sound – Dianne McIntyre
Premiere – March, Sullivan Hall, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

It Has Not Always Been This Way 

Music – Amina Claudine Myers
Poetry – Ntozake Shange
Premiere – June, Symphony Space, New York City

Just A Myth 

Music – Various recorded
Premiere – By Karamu Dancers, Cleveland, OH 

Sounds In Motion premiere – June, Symphony Space, New York City 

Liquid Magic 

Music – Ahmed Abdullah
Premiere – June, Symphony Space, New York City 

No Wonder 

Music – Recorded rhythm and blues
Text – Toni Morrison
Premiere – By Sounds In Motion students at Sounds In Motion Studio, Harlem, NY 

1980

100% Cotton 

Music and poetry – Oliver Lake
Premiere – 13 June, Symphony Space, New York City 

I’ve Known Rivers 

Music – Gary Bartz
Premiere – 13 June, Symphony Space, New York City 

Suite Music 

Music – Hamiet Bluiett
Premiere – 14 June, Symphony Space, New York City 

Triptych 

Prayer 

Protest 

Peace 

Music – Max Roach
Premiere – 13 June, Symphony Space, New York City 

1979

Last Days of the Down Home Boogies 

Music – Memphis Jug Band and Washboard Rhythm Kings
Premiere – By Atlanta University Center Dancers, Read Hall, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
Sounds In Motion premiere – 8 June, Henry Street Settlement Playhouse, New York City 

Life’s Force 

Music – Ahmed Abdullah
Premiere – Carver Center, San Antonio, TX 

1977

Ancestral Voices 

Music – Cecil Taylor
Premiere – February, by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco

Journey to Forever 

Music – Ahmed Abdullah
Premiere – 29 May, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY 

Tangent Forces 

Music – Doug Hammond
Premiere – 26 October, Entermedia Theatre, New York City 

1976

Deep South Suite 

Magnolias Just Dripping with Molasses

Hearsay

There Was Nobody Looking

Happy Go Lucky Local

Music – Duke Ellington
Premiere – May, by Alvin Ailey Repertory Company, Theatre of the Riverside Church, New York

Etude For Moving Sounds 

Music – Babafumi Akunyun and Hank Johnson 

Piano Peace 

Moon Song 

A Silent Tear 

Music – Mary Lou Williams, Art Tatum, and McCoy Tyner
First performed (in-progress) 23 January, Henry Street Settlement Playhouse, New York

Going Home 

Music – Paul Robeson
Premiere – 18 June, Marymount Manhattan Theatre, New York City
(from Tribute to Paul Robeson)

The Voyage 

Music – Traditional slave songs
First performed (in-progress) 29 March, La Mama Annex, New York City

1975

Memories 

With Hopes 

With Despair 

With Love 

Music – Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle
Premiere – January, Henry Street Settlement Playhouse, New York City 

Shadows 

Music – Cecil Taylor
Premiere – 3 November, Majestic Theatre, New York City (from Tribute to Syvilla Fort

Up North, 1881 

Music – Louisiana State Prisoners, Rev. Gary Davis, Alabama Sacred Harp Singers, and Fred McDowell Premiere – 29 May, by New York High School of the Performing Arts, High School of Printing Auditorium, New York City 

1974

Dead Center 

Music – Hank Johnson
Premiere – New Lafayette Theater, New York City 

Free Voices 

Vocal Accompaniment – Gwendolyn Nelson
Premiere – Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors 

Union (Union For the Streets) 

Music – Steve Solder and Roe Rigby
Poetry – Margaret Walker, Langston Hughes
Premiere – New Lafayette Theater, New York City 

1973

The Lost Sun 

Music – Gene Casey
Premiere – 27 January, Clark Center, New York City 

1972

For Four Voices 

Music – Arthur Williams
Premiere – 27 March, Cubiculo Theatre, New York City 

A Free Thing I 

Premiere – 27 March, Cubiculo Theatre, New York City 

A Free Thing II 

Music – Joe Falcon, Aiye Niwaju, Stephen Reid, and Joe Rigby
Premiere – 18 June, Washington Square Methodist Church, New York City 

Long Gones 

Music – Memphis Jug Band, Bessie Smith, and Dixie Land Jug Blowers
Premiere – August, Long Island, New York 

Poem: A Collage 

Music – Frank Dawson, Aiye Niwaju, and Joe Rigby
Poetry – Ed Bullins, Langston Hughes, Norman Jordan, Mari Evans, James Emmanuel, Clarence Reed, Margaret Walker, and Fatish Verano
Premiere – 18 June, Washington Square Methodist Church, New York 

Smoke and Clouds 

Music – Traditional, Shirley and Lee, Huey Smith and The Jacks, and Will Crittendon
Premiere – 27 March, Cubiculo Theatre, New York City 

For Four Voices 

Music – Anthony Wiles, Arthur Williams,
Premiere – 27 March, Cubiculo Theatre, New York City 

1971

Melting Song

McIntyre solo, Premiere – 6 June, Clark Center, New York City