Harlem Stage Unveils Fall Season Harlem Stage, which commissions music, dance, drama and other work by artists of color, has announced its fall season, which includes three premiere performances at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse, at West 135th and Convent Ave. "Holding it Down: The Veterans" Dreams Project," conceived and developed by the jazz composer and arranger Vijay Iyer and the poet Mike Ladd, is based on the real lives and dreams of veterans of color from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. The live, multimedia presentation with poetry, spoken word, video projections and live music has its premiere Sept. 19 and runs through the 22. "Sleep Song (Chapter 2 of the Veteran's Dreams Project)," is a similar multimedia presentation, this time created from the perspective of civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq. It had its premiere in Paris in 2011 and has its Harlem Stage premiere on November 30 and runs through December 1, 2012. Both performances were created with Maurice Decaul, a poet and a veteran of the Afghanistan war, and will be accompanied by community programming and humanities events in conjunction with Columbia University. From Nov. 1 to 3 is "Pavement," a dance from choreographer Kyle Abraham ("Radio Show"). Its main inspiration was the director John Singleton's 1991 film "Boyz "N the Hood," about the violence and despair in the lives of a group of young men in Los Angeles. "Pavement," an evening-length work set in two historically black Pittsburgh neighborhoods, examines the state of black men in this country and the communities that have shaped their lives.