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Buy tickets for SEED LANGUAGE: A NEW IDENTITY AT ACT'S GEARY THEATER
Destiny Arts Center has produced some of the most provocative youth dance/theater in the Bay Area for over 20 years. This year their nationally acclaimed group, The Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company, under the direction of Sarah Crowell and Rashidi Omari, will team up with the professional dance company, Embodiment Project (www.embodimentproject.org), under the direction of Nicole Klaymoon, who is quickly gaining acclaim for her proactive and innovative approach to street dance tradition as a call to political action, to create a performance experience like no other. The show will also feature choreography by the internationally acclaimed aerial dance troupe, BANDALOOP (www.bandaloop.org ), under the direction of Amelia Rudolph and Suzanne Gallo.
SEED LANGUAGE: A NEW IDENTITY is a multi-disciplinary street dance and documentary theater production that explores unseen histories of the war on black and brown bodies, and how it shows up today, especially as enacted through language. Through documentary theater, a style innovated by renowned actress and playwright, Anna Deavere Smith, Destiny youth embody vital voices of the Black Lives Matter movement, the Black Panther Party and the hip hop movement to the center of a timely conversation about unity, hip-hop feminism, action, and strength.
The documentary theater segments of the show highlight parts of interviews that were conducted by youth and adult company members with formidable artists, activists and elders who have shaped and are shaping the conversation about race, privilege, power and the possibility for healing in provocative times folks such as Alicia Garza, the mother of the Black Lives Matter movement, Ericka Huggins, an educator and member of the Black Panther Party, and more. The interviews are embodied by the youth performers who humanize and re-contextualize stories marginalized by mainstream cultural norms and language.
SEED LANGUAGE: A NEW IDENTITY is Destinys 23rd annual production and will feature a cast of 43 talented youth and 10 accomplished adult performers who execute a scintillating combination of hip-hop and aerial dance, theater, spoken word and song, accompanied by powerful video backdrop art. A performance event NOT TO BE MISSED.
SHOW DATES AND TIMES
Fri, MARCH 25 @ 7:30pm
Sat, MARCH 26 @ 7:30pm
Fri, APRIL 1 @ 7:30pm
Sat, APRIL 2 @ 2pm
Sat, APRIL 2 @ 7:30pm
Sun, APRIL 3 @ 5pm
About Destiny Arts Center
Destiny Arts Center, a nonprofit violence prevention and arts education organization, has been serving youth for 26 years through afterschool, weekend and summer programs in dance, theater, martial arts, self-defense, conflict resolution, performance and leadership at their North Oakland center and in East Bay public schools. The programs serve up to 500 youth at the Center and up to 4,000 youth through outreach programs in up to 45 public schools annually.
About the Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company
The Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company is a multicultural group of teens that create dynamic productions in collaboration with professional artists, combining hip hop, modern, and aerial dance, theater, song and rap, that express their experience, strength and hope for themselves, their communities and their world. Since 1993 has performed for up to 25,000 audience members annually with a strong reputation for creating high quality, professional, original productions and performances.
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| Friday Mar 25, 2016 7:30 PM - Sunday Apr 03, 2016 5:00 PM | $10.00 - $30.00 |
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LocationOdell Johnson Theater at Laney College (View)
900 Fallon Street
Oakland, CA 94607
United States
Categories
| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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