Marilyn Nance
Sun Ra Arkestra Dancer Engages Rehearsal Onlookers
1977
Marilyn Nance photographed the Sun Ra Arkestra's performances at FESTAC '77 in Lagos in 1977. 'Sun Ra Arkestra Dancer Interacting with Rehearsal Audience' captures one of the Arkestra's dancers engaging the festival audience during a rehearsal — a historic moment of Sun Ra's Afrofuturist aesthetic returning to the African continent. The gelatin silver print belongs to Nance's extensive FESTAC documentation at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Image source: Art Institute of Chicago