Professor and musician CK Ladzekpo’s production, ‘Hogbetsotso — Day of Crossing Over,’ centers on Ghanian people’s stirring exodus to freedom.
East Bay Professor and musician CK Ladzekpo has created a new production, “Hogbetsotso — Day of Crossing Over,’ that celebrates Ghanian people’s 14th-century exodus to freedom.Every year, the Anlo-Ewe people of coastal Ghana reenact the foundational story of their exodus, a flight from servitude to freedom.
Hailing from an illustrious family of artists and cultural practitioners, Ladzekpo also been a creative force at the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts in Richmond, which is where he’s premiering “Hogbetsotso — Day of Crossing Over,” June 10 and 11. Distilling the Anlo-Ewe rituals he absorbed as a youth, the production was made possible due to a Hewlett 50 Arts Commission in Folk and Traditional Arts.
In many ways the EBCPA production is also a celebration of the community that Ladzekpo has nurtured over the past half-century. He moved to the East Bay to teach at Cal in 1973, fleeing a repressive military government.
“Hogbetsotso” also embodies the community that’s taken shape at the Center for Performing Arts, which was founded in Richmond in 1968 in response to the assassination of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Offering tuition-free classes, the organization has been profoundly shaped by Ladzekpo, said pianist Ruthie Dineen, the center’s executive director.
“Hogbetsotso” opens with a procession drawn directly from the Anlo-Ewe ritual reenacting the flight west to freedom. “The first half I tried to be an Ewe in a village, to keep tradition as much as I can, remembering songs, dances, drumming that serve as a process of reunification.” Ladzekpo said. “Audience participation is very important.”
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