Percussionist

Boston-based dancer, choreographer, and teacher Jenny Oliver is 2023/24 Creative in Residence with acclaimed Black arts collective Castle of Our Skins, and serves as the head of Dance Performance at Tufts University. She co-creates culturally-responsive movement projects and experiences with museums and public spaces throughout the area: Friends of the Public Garden, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Museum of Science, and more.

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Jenny Oliver, choreographer and dancer Steph Davis

Multicultural Arts Center

Through solos and duos, Steph Davis and Maria Finkelmeier with Angela Shankar explore the resonance and timbral spectrum of the marimba with clarinet. From moving spirituals to contemporary classical explorations, the artists share the ways in which the instruments can embody and express many voices and histories.

Steph Davis and Maria Finkelmeier, marimbists

In this season finale concert, Steph Davis presents like flower petals…, a program that aims to bring new perspective to the marimba. like flower petals… combines West African gyil music, African American spirituals, and Black classical music traditions. Drawing from the marimba’s rich and ancient history rooted on the African continent, Davis shares an Africanist/African-American lens through which to experience the marimba.

Percussionist

Steph Davis

Events

Past events

Feb 22, 2025

Jenny Oliver, choreographer and dancer Steph Davis · Celebrity Series of Boston

Feb 8, 2025

Steph Davis and Maria Finkelmeier, marimbists · Celebrity Series of Boston

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