Marc Bamuthi Joseph and The Living Word Project in "red, black & GREEN: a blues"
Friday & Saturday, April 27 & 28
Lewiston Recreation Center, 8 p.m.
$20/$10 (Students & Seniors)
Tickets go on sale March 1
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Photo by Bethanie Hines |
Spoken word/hip-hop theater artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph presents red, black & GREEN: a blues (rbGb), a new evening-length multimedia work designed to jumpstart a conversation about environmental justice, social ecology and collective responsibility in the climate change era. In an exhilarating, interactive performance of dance, text, and visuals, Joseph is joined onstage by dancer/actor Traci Tolmaire, drummer/beat boxer Tommy Shephard, and vocalist/visual artist Theaster Gates, who is also designing the set.
rbGb is set into Gates’ malleable stage installation of repurposed building materials and clay objects, and heightened by Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi’s vivid films and graffiti murals. Source material is drawn from a series of art and eco festivals Joseph created in Houston, Oakland, Harlem and Chicago. The poetry and performance in rbGb posits the idea that valuing your own life, and the life of your community, is the first step in valuing the planet Earth.
“(rbGb) is an exhilarating and interactive performance of dance, text and video that evokes a visceral reaction..." Heavy ARTillery, Houston art blog
"The piece is part sculptural installation and part multimedia theatrical extravaganza. It is a poetic whirlwind of text, film, music, dance..." San Francisco Chronicle
Please Note: When the performance begin at 8 p.m. the audience will be invited to join the artists on stage to observe the action up close for the first 20 minutes of the production. The audience will then be asked to take their seats for the remainder of the show.
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