Film Screening – A Wu-Tang Experience: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre

The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to present a special screening of A Wu-Tang Experience: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in the Museum’s Clive Davis Theater, followed by a discussion with the film’s directors, legendary Wu-Tang Clan Founder RZA and Gerald K. Barclay (Gee-Bee), and moderated by Raqiyah Mays. The post-screening discussion will also spotlight RZA’s new classical music album, A Ballet Through Mud.

This free program will be hosted by Schyler O’Neal, Senior Manager of Education & Community Engagement at the GRAMMY Museum, and is presented in partnership with the Hip-Hop Education Center.

To tour the museum before the program, including our Hip-Hop America; The Mixtape Exhibit, buy tickets here.

Check-in: 4:00PM

About the Film:

36 Chambers presents A Wu-Tang Experience: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Combining performances and revealing interviews with group members and associates, classical musicians, and concertgoers, the film documents the extraordinary concert at the iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre where the Wu-Tang Clan, backed by the 60-piece Colorado Symphony Orchestra, weaved together songs from their vast discography of group and solo albums. Their setlist created a live score to a real-time screening of the seminal martial arts film The 36th Chamber of Shaolin—the movie that largely inspired the Clan’s aesthetic and the title of their groundbreaking debut album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers).

The documentary deconstructs stereotypes that limit classical music and Hip-Hop as mutually exclusive musical genres, dismantles these imposed limitations, and collapses boundaries and artistic mediums to amplify the ways classical music, Hip-Hop, and film can coalesce in beautiful, innovative union. The film will have its streaming premiere on PBS on Nov. 11.

About A Ballet Through Mud:

A Ballet Through Mud is RZA’s first original composition and orchestration. Originally performed by the Colorado Symphony, A Ballet Through Mud is a poignant coming-of-age story that delves into the complexities of love, the bonds of friendship, and personal growth. Featuring characters named for Greek musical scales, the piece echoes RZA’s journey from Staten Island project housing to refined concert halls – weaving in tales of love, loss, exploration, Buddhist monks, and a journey “through mud.” The full album is available on all streaming platforms and was released in partnership with Platoon and 36 Chambers.