Work Samples

TFT and Inspira Ensemble are pleased to offer samples of our original compositions. To hear tracks from our work, please visit: Soundcloud

To purchase our music and merchandise,
visit: https://amandakemp.bandcamp.com

For professional bookings or inquiries please contact:
info@theatrefortransformation.org

AUDIO:

Excerpts from our latest original works can be sampled on Soundcloud. Composed and arranged by Michael Jamanis, Francis Wong, and Amanda Kemp, these completed pieces have been created for our 2018 art production, We the People…14. The three new works are entitled:

VIDEO:

Poet-performer Amanda Kemp and violinist Michael Jamanis perform The Chaconne Emancipated, a dramatic setting of J.S. Bach's timeless Chaconne for solo violin, interwoven with Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, African American spirituals, a poem by Assata Shakur, and Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Jazz legend Willie Ruff says: "J.S.
“Chaconne Emancipated Trailer”

MUSIC:

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“Photo credit: Jennifer Felty”

Inspira Ensemble’s Inspira: “The Power of the Spiritual", featuring the original compositions I Remember Tiananmen 1989, and Dr. Amanda Kemp’s powerful spoken word performance Say Her Name.

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Inspira Ensemble’s masterpiece, Chaconne Emancipated.

SPOKEN WORD PERFORMANCE SELECTIONS: :

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Dr. Amanda Kemp’s book, Say The Wrong Thing is available as a paperback hardcopy or E-Book.

 

Theatre for Transformation tours original historical interdisciplinary arts productions that invite audiences to transform our conversation about race and to create new possibilities by remembering, and releasing our reasons for why things can't change.