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The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist, a multidisciplinary opera recalling the 2014 death of Eric Garner after a police officer placed him in a chokehold, premiered at the  on Sept. 16.

The opera began as a collaboration between , the George Frederick Jewett ����Ӱ�� of Studio Art, and Jonathan Berger, a professor of music at Stanford University. The libretto was written by  and the multimedia production team includes , a lecturer at Dartmouth, and Gwen Carr, Eric Garner’s mother. 

Leading up to the two-day run of the opera in Spaulding Auditorium Sept. 16 and 17, the production team and the ����Ӱ��kins Center hosted six days of “communal acts of healing and reflection” featuring digital and in-person rituals around campus. The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist now travels to the West Coast where it will play for two nights on Oct. 14 and 15 at the Bing Concert Hall at Stanford University.