“NIGHTS SWEATS” A Special Commission in Honor of World AIDS Day 2020
Premiered Virtually on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch TV December 1, 2020 | 7:30pm. The New Haven Pride Center, in collaboration with the New Haven Mayor’s Task Force on AIDS and the Guardian Health Association, commissioned NightSweats, a multimedia performance program that incorporates music composition, storytelling, dance, and video projection. This project was commissioned in honor of the 32nd Annual World AIDS Day.
NightSweats is a poem originally written by one of Connecticut’s oldest living HIV+ activists Rev. Alexander Garbera in 1991, at the apex of AIDS-related deaths in the United States. Under the artistic direction of composer Noah Michael Smith, NightSweats (the poem) has been transformed into a musical landscape and is brought to life through the music, movement, and video performance. The musical piece will be set to movement by acclaimed Hartford-born dancer Arien Wilkerson.
This program is part of the New Haven Pride Center’s 2020 World AIDS Day Observation.
Filmed was co directed and filmed by Arien Wilkerson, Noah Michael Smith. Edited by Arien Wilkerson, Noah Michael Smith, and Country Bug.