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Events: March 2008 February, 2008
April, 2008
January 19 - November 22 Urban Bush Women Les écailles de la mémoire (The scales of memory) (MAP 2005 and 2006), a new dance work created in collaboration between American choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Senegalese choreographer Germaine Acogny and their respective companies, the all-female Urban Bush Women and the all-male Compagnie JANT-BI. March 6 - March 9 HERE Arts/Young Jean Lee Young Jean Lee's worst nightmare is to make anything as predictable as a confessional, Korean-American identity play with a flowery Asian-sounding title, so she decided to do just that. Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven (MAP 2006) follows a character named "Korean-American" as she navigates, like a contestant in an identity-politics video game, the increasingly disturbing levels of a pseudo-Korean world. On the Boards March 6 - March 8 Cultural Odyssey The Love Project and Other Stories (MAP 2005), an evening collaboration of words, music, and movement between Pearl Cleage, Ntozake Shange, Rhodessa Jones, and Idris Ackamoor. Painted Bride Art Center March 7 - March 30 Goat Island Performance Group The Lastmaker (MAP 2006) takes its inspiration from the historical trajectory of the Hagia Sophia: church/mosque/museum, considered here as movements encountered on different planes. The Lastmaker recapitulates the concerns of 20 years of Goat Island, in what we hope will be a fitting conclusion to our contribution – a journey, within a restrained structure, from the intellectual to the emotional, with lasting resonance. New Territories March 11 - March 29 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts/Marc Bamuthi Joseph World Premiere of the break's (MAP 2007), a new multimedia theater work created by writer/performer Marc Bamuthi Joseph, director Chay Yew, and dramaturg Brian Freeman, that joins personal narrative and social history in a poetic investigation of identity. March 14 - March 16 Kitka, Inc. A co-commission by Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble and SUNY Oswego of composer Richard Einhorn new multi-media choral work, The Origin of the Origin (MAP 2007), inspired by the studies and struggles of Charles Darwin. ArtsWego March 20 - March 23 The Carpetbag Theatre World Premiere of Between a Ballad & a Blues (MAP 2007), a new play with music written by Linda Parris-Bailey and based upon the life and stories of the late African-American string band musician Howard Armstrong. March 27 - April 5 Goat Island Performance Group The Lastmaker (MAP 2006) takes its inspiration from the historical trajectory of the Hagia Sophia: church/mosque/museum, considered here as movements encountered on different planes. The Lastmaker recapitulates the concerns of 20 years of Goat Island, in what we hope will be a fitting conclusion to our contribution – a journey, within a restrained structure, from the intellectual to the emotional, with lasting resonance. Museum of Contemporary Art |
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