HHTF Insiders,
It's tax season, but who can worry about that with all the super-fresh Hip-Hop events? In Chicago this month comes Hip-Hop Live + Reel, featuring Hip-Hop theater artists The Suicide Kings, Yuri Lane, Reggie Watts and more. Reggie Watts also performs at Ars Nova here in New York, and the Future Aesthetic Cohort comes to NYC to select the Future Aesthetics grantees of 2008. On top of all that, everyone here is buzzing about The First Annual "Get Sprung on HHTF" Spring Benefit happening in May.
And if that isn't enough to distract you from deducting the sum of Lines 64 and 65 from Line 63, then check out what's happening from our community partners and friends: the Streb dancers awe us once again at S.L.A.M in Williamsburg, our friends at La Mama present Seoul's B-Alive! for three days only, the groundbreaking documentary Planet B-Boy extends its stay in New York and continues its fire trail across the U.S, Borough of Manhattan Community College hosts Latino Day for high school youth and Deep Lez is looking for performers in the Bay.
But if April 15 really got you buggin', at least take few moments to calculate your Earned Hip-Hop Education credit, go ahead and estimate high on your HHTF capital gains, and be sure to file jointly
with us.
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Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art offers a Hip-Hop line-up featuring The Suicide Kings, Reggie Watts, Yuri Lane and Young Chicago AuthorsFor more information, go to www.mcachicago.org.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Henry Chalfant: Style Wars and From Mambo to Hip-Hop
Friday, April 25, 2008
Reggie Watts: Disinformation
with Deja Taylor and Teatro Luna
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Suicide Kings: In Spite of Everything
with Louder than a Bomb 2008 finalists and Yuri Lane
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Rock Fresh, Breath Control with Joey Garfield and Yuri Lane, and Dave Chappelle's Block Party
Thursday, April 24 - Sunday, April 26. Schedule below.
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The First Annual "Get Sprung on HHTF" Spring Benefit is
coming! Join Phylicia Rashad, Malik Yoba & Danny Hoch for an evening of food, music and performances from the country's leading Hip-Hop theater artists. More special guests include Universes, Baba Israel and Kevin Powell. Make sure you RSVP for Wednesday, May 28, by emailing elz@hhtf.org for a very special event benefiting your favorite non-profit theater company! (Us!) If you'd like to be
on the inaugural host committee or volunteer at the event, email Elz at elz@hhtf.org.
Get Sprung on HHTF
Hip-Hop Theater Festival's First Annual Spring Benefit
Hurley's :: 232 W. 48th Street :: NY, NY
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 :: 7:30 - 9:30 PM
DONATIONS WILL BE SOLICITED
RSVP REQUIRED: elz@hhtf.org
Sponsored by
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REGGIE WATTS: OCCURRENCE
Currently burning up the alternative comedy circuit around the world, Reggie Watts hits the Ars Nova stage for one night only! Occurrence is a rollicking alternative performance & film event curated by Watts and playwright Tommy Smith, where innovative guest performers share the stage with Watts' and Smith's hilarious, self-produced DumbFilms. The evening culminates with Reggie's own incomparable, genre-warping performance, where music and comedy meet and implode. A lasting charge of comic electricity!
Occurrence
Wednesday, April 9, 2008 :: 8 PM
Ars Nova :: 511 West 54th Street :: New York, NY 10019
Tickets: $20 https://www.smarttix.com/show
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Mark your calendars now for Hip-Hop Theater Festival: Washington D.C, Monday, July 7 - Saturday, July 12, featuring Steve Connell & Sekou, Universes and Baba Israel and the NYC Hip-Hop Theater Festival, September 23 - October 11, featuring Marc Bamuthi Joseph's much-anticipated the break/s. Keep your eyes open for full details and schedule COMING SOON!
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NYC welcomes The Future Aesthetics Cohort
The Future Aesthetics Artist Regrant Program (FAAR) has been a huge success for HHTF, and this month, an official selection panel will convene in New York to determine the FAAR artists for 2008-2009. FAAR is a one-year pilot program dedicated to promoting emerging professional artists; with Future Aesthetics defined as art that is constantly evolving and challenging the ethos of traditional applications.
FAAR supports artists in a variety of geographic locations and disciplines including visual artists, poets, writers, playwrights, dancers, actors, and directors. As the administrator of this national program funded by the Ford Foundation and in conjunction with the Future Aesthetics Cohort (Global Action Project, La Pena Cultural Center, Miami Light Project, Youth Speaks, Hip Hop Theater Festival and Rennie Harris Puremovement), HHTF is proud to announce that 12 - 15 artists will we awarded individual grants up to $5000 to further their professional careers. A big thanks to the Cohort, all of the nominating organizations, and best wishes to all of the talented nominees!
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NEW YORK'S OWN HOMEGROWN ACTION HEROES CONTINUE THEIR EPIC BATTLE AGAINST GRAVITY.
EXTREME ACTION AT STREB'S WILLIAMSBURG ACTION FACTORY.
"These dancers are pioneers and heroes; even as they thrill the watching audience with spectacle and theatricality, they're testing what human beings can accomplish." Deborah Jowitt, Village Voice
STREB S.L.A.M Show XI
S.L.A.M. :: 51 North First Street :: Brooklyn, NY
Now through MAY 18
Fridays at 7 PM :: Saturdays at 3 & 7 PM :: Sundays at 3 PM
$20 adults :: $10 for kids 12 and under
www.strebusa.org
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Direct from Seoul, the acclaimed dance group Gorilla Crew, is set to take the city by storm as its high-octane show B-Alive!lands in New York for 6 performances ONLY. The physical tour-de-force B-Alive! will play Thursday, April 3 - Sunday, April 6 at La MaMa Theater.
Landing in New York on the heels of a smash hit 3-year run in Korea, B-Alive! centers on a young classically-trained ballerina who falls for a streetwise b-boy and finds herself captivated by the dancing and music that are at the core of his hip-hop world. This extreme and innovative work features a wide variety of hip-hop styles from break dancing to popping and locking, and even moments of traditional ballet. Making their U.S. debut, the Gorilla Crew explores the self-expression of today's youth as they bring elements of popular street culture to the stage.
B-Alive!
Thursday, April 3 - Sunday,
April 6
La MaMa Theater :: 74A East
4th Street
All tickets are $30
(212) 475-7710.
For more
info, check out www.lamama.org.
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PLANET B-BOY Tours the U.S
Now Playing in New York :: Sunshine Cinema
Director Benson Lee In Person
Fri & Sat, April 4 & 5 at 7:00 & 9:30pm!
Last month PLANET B-BOY premiered in New York City and throughout April it continues its tour through Boston, Austin, Chicago, Arizona, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Seattle. Don't miss this spectacular documentary the Los Angeles Times hails as full of "alive and thrillingly jaw dropping dance sequences." If you're a New Yorker, join HHTF to see Dynamic Rockers at 6:15 Saturday night, see the film at
7 PM then meet director Benson Lee after the show! Tickets on sale now!
With compelling characters and vibrant dance sequences, Benson Lee's documentary feature is set in the international world of B-boying—the urban dance more commonly known as "breakdancing." An American dancer in Vegas looks for his big break; a Korean son seeks his father's approval; a 12-year-old boy in France confronts his family's racism—all the b-boys' lives collide in Germany where their skills are put to the ultimate test: the "Battle of the Year" finals, with crews from 18 nations vying for the title of World Champion. The film features electrifying dance performances and astonishing displays of power and grace, showing how a street dance from New York has evolved into an inspiring art form for a new generation around the world.
For screenings across the country go to www.planetbboy.com.
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Borough of Manhattan Community College extends and invitation to high school students and the communities throughout New York's five boroughs and neighboring counties to attend this year's 18th annual Latino College Expo Saturday, April 12, 2008 at the Borough of Manhattan Community College from 12 noon to 4 PM. This is an opportunity to visit universities and colleges across the United States under one roof. The cost of the college fair is free and the information is priceless.
Representatives from colleges across the country will be on hand to help students and parents learn about their options. In addition to the college information booths, workshops will be available on a variety of topics, such as choosing a college, scholarships and admissions, financial aid, and other pertinent issues and information for parents and students alike. For more information, go to www.latinocollegeexpo.org.
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Call for Artists
Calling all Bay Area performers. Deep Lez is looking for you: People willing to perform in The Deep Lez Potluck
and Performance Night as part of the National Queer Arts Festival 2008
(http://www.queerculturalcenter.org.)
The event is on Wednesday, June 18 starting at 7PM and the location is El Rio on Mission Street in San Francisco. The show aims to present performances from a broad base of artists that are, individually, redefining contemporary lesbian existence in an environment that may deem it as irrelevant or exclusive. We are seeking to find representations of lesbianism from performers who operate under the broad queer umbrella and are not afraid or ashamed to consciously bring it back to the (self aware) unified sisterhood of women loving women. It is a reflection on the connections between a diverse contemporary queer community and the radical lesbian feminism that took seed in the 1970's and was the midwife to recent theories on dispelling a gender binary and queer theory. Deep Lez is a resistance to a queer politic of 'reinventing the wheel' and a consciousness of the herstorical lessons learned from our foremothers' successes and mistakes. It's applying radical feminism that is inclusive of all women in contemporary patriarchal times, while reminding each other to laugh, be sexy, and re-develop community based on inclusiveness and love.
For more information, go to: http://www.myspace.com/lezziepotluck.
FOR GENERAL FESTIVAL INFORMATION
Hip-Hop Theater Festival
email: info@hhtf.org
phone: 718.497.4282
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