" data-original-title="" title="">Bobby Zankel, and visual artist John Dowell will present the latest version of their ongoing creative collaboration commemorating the nine African Americans enslaved by President George Washington in the President's House, the first American “white house" that stood on a site just steps away from where the Liberty Bell is currently housed.

Two shows: 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets $20 are available online For Info: 215-517-8337. Seating is very limited.

This exciting and ongoing project, titled The Spirits Break to Freedom, involves an ensemble of 10 musicians, dancers and vocalists. Jazz tap/percussive dance, projected paintings and photography, and original instrumental music and song are the artists' tools for wrestling with the irony of human bondage practiced in Philadelphia, the “cradle of liberty, by the revered leader of a new nation founded on the promise of freedom.

This presentation will invite the audience to imagine the complexity of the feelings of the enslaved for their owners and through music, dance and art, will give voice to the identities, feelings and aspirations of the Nine, whose existence was buried and forgotten for centuries. These artists wrestle with slavery's enduring legacy and explore the power of tradition and culture to sustain hope and resist oppression. They confront the conflicting evidence of Washington's attitudes toward slavery and his own participation in an institution that defied the principles his office stood for.

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