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Umbra Rumba
1997
Creative Team
Choreographer
Eliot Feld
Lighting Designer
Running Time
27 min
Music
Composer
Various
Composition
“Graveyard Blues” by John Lee Hooker and Bernard Besman.
“Mama Blues” by Charles Aaron Wilburn.
“Bottleneck Blues” by Sylvester Weaver
“Cripple Creek and Sourwood Mountain”
“Tub Jug Rag” by The Tub Jug Washboard Band
“I Don’t Know When Death Is Gonna Call Me” by Robert Johnson
“Cairo” by Henry Spaulding
“Key to the Bushes” and “Shake Em Down” by Napoleon Strickland.
“Knife Instrumental” by Mot Willis.
Premiere
Date
March 7, 1997Location
Joyce Theater (New York, NY)Company
Ballet TechPremiere Cast
Credits & Notes
Umbra Rumba was originally titled Umbra Blues.