{"id":31,"date":"2023-11-21T01:49:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T01:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barkinglegsarchive.org\/home\/?p=31"},"modified":"2024-10-30T23:47:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T23:47:06","slug":"alice-lovelace-02-07-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barkinglegsarchive.org\/home\/1997\/alice-lovelace-02-07-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Lovelace &#8211; 02\/07\/1997"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We journey back to the 1990s to meet an exemplary and famous performer, Alice Lovelace, who began teaching poetry in a church basement 20 years prior to her show at Barking Legs. At that time, Alice was a member of the Pan-American Writers\u2019 Workshop at Washington University in St. Louis. By the time she appeared with us in Chattanooga, first in 1994 and then in 1997, Ms. Lovelace was a published poet,<br>essayist, playwright, narrative performer, myth maker, and word wizard. She was part of contemporary southern transplants forging new perspectives on human themes.<br><br>Alice\u2019s style was described as a cross between West African praise singer and a black southern preacher. In <strong>1994<\/strong>, Alice joined two other southern women performing on January 22nd . She presented \u201cPlaying with Fire,\u201d in which she explored her search for \u201cfamily accounting\u201d through story, song, and poetry. Her themes are personal and universal, seeking to restore her relationship to southern parents.<br><br>Her compelling talents brought her back with us on February 7-8, 1997. By then, Alice\u2019s diverse talents included holding creative writing and poetry workshops with students in Chattanooga. Barking Legs performers have frequently combined teaching and performing in the community during its 30-year history.<br><br>A feature article appeared in The Chattanooga Times on <strong>2\/7\/1997<\/strong>, in which Alice describes her stories as \u201chow I learned to value people over things.\u201d She believes that as a creative writer, she must speak the truth as she knows it. She explained, \u201cOver the years I have some to know many truths\u2014some disturbing, some glorious. At this stage in my career, I seek to reconcile some of these truths\u2014personal, political, and historical.\u201d<br><br><strong>Particularly relevant today, is her story entitled,<\/strong> \u201cCeremony for Dead White Men, \u201d<strong>a provocative, commissioned work in 1992.<\/strong> This piece gave a timeless response to a multi-cultural movement in which people were angry about deceased, white men teaching inherited traditions in Western Europe. Alice explained, <strong>\u201cThis piece is about how one era must pas away in order for a new era to come.\u201d<\/strong><br><br><em>Few of us can disagree with the Alice Lovelace\u2019s pregnant wisdom \u2014waiting for rebirth in our troubled times today!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We journey back to the 1990s to meet an exemplary and famous performer, Alice Lovelace, who began teaching poetry in a church basement 20 years prior to her show at Barking Legs. At that time, Alice was a member of the Pan-American Writers\u2019 Workshop at Washington University in St. Louis. 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