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Roderick Jackson (with EarlyStages since 2006) leads the percussion ensemble, Palms Down. He is currently Music Director for Batoto Yetu Children's African Dance Company and a percussionist on staff at the Alvin Ailey School of American Dance and Broadway Dance Center.. He has also collaborated with several dance companies, such as Chet Walker's (of Broadway's "FOSSE") Eight and Ah 1 Dance Ensemble, Omar Edwards' (Broadway's " Bring In Da Noise, Bring In Da Funk") Jeremiah Funk Ensemble, David Pleasant's RiddimAthon Percussion Ensemble (which deals with Black American music and the Gullah Culture), and Sung Wook Park's Fourth Dimension Dance Company. He has recorded works for The Children's Television Workshop, Sesame Street, Rabbit Ears Productions, and The Smithsonian Institute. He also assisted film director Jonathan Demme in developing scene music for the motion picture "Beloved", starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover. He was also part of the cultural traditions faculty at Jacob's Pillow for the years 2000 and 2003.
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