CLAS/SICK HIP HOP

AMY O’NEAL OPPOSING FORCES

FEB 16-18 2017 YBCA FORUM

YBCA.ORG #CLASSICKHIPHOP Our organization was founded in 1993 as THE LESLIE AND MERLE RABINE 2016–17 PERFORMANCE SEASON WELCOME TO a citizen institution that would be home to the diverse local arts community while YERBA BUENA serving to connect the Bay Area to the CENTER FOR world. YBCA’s mission is to generate culture that moves people. We believe THE ARTS that culture—a collection of art, traditions, values, human experiences, and stories— is what enables us to act with imagination and creativity, to act socially, politically, and with conviction. Culture instigates change in the world.

We believe that more and different kinds of people need to be defining culture today and that more people need to have access to cultural experiences that are relevant to their lives and their communities. We need new definitions and new experiences that bring people together regardless of their differences in order to make the inclusive and equitable culture we need today. We believe that the arts should be on the front line of change and that cultural OPPOSING FORCES AMY O’NEAL institutions exist to spur and support big CONCEPT, DIRECTION, societal movements. Through powerful art experiences, thoughtful and PERFORMERS AND AND CO-CHOREOGRAPHER: provocative content, and deep CO-CHOREOGRAPHERS: opportunities for participation, we are Alfredo “Free” Vergara Jr. committed to kindling inclusive culture Brysen “Just Be” Angeles Costume design: that cultivates empathy, awakens personal Fever One Wazhma Samizay + Danial Hellman with and societal transformation, and reaches Michael O’Neal Jr. Bobojan for a world fueled by inspiration. The MozesLateef need has never been stronger than now, Robert Eyerman (replacing Brysen Cinematic documentation: and there is no better place than YBCA to Angeles for this performance) Kyle Seago answer the call. We are so glad that you are here. We are Original music by: Management: grateful for your cultural participation, Waylon Dungan aka WD4D Stefanie Karlin and SQUID MGMT and we hope you will come back and enjoy all that YBCA has to offer. Vocal performance on cover of Kendrick Thank you: On the Boards, Velocity Dance Lamar’s “Backseat Freestyle”: Center, The Beacon: Massive Monkees Gifted Gab Studio, PICA, YBCA, Case Van Rij, Caroline Warmly, Renard, Ben Zamora, Amiya Brown, Zoe Original voice-over for Lateef’s solo: Scofield, Tonya Lockyer, Mark Haim, DEBORAH CULLINAN Kyana Saleem Koushik Ghosh, Dani Tirell, Ellie Sandstrom, CEO of YERBA BUENA Shinobi Jaxx, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Jess CENTER FOR THE ARTS Dramaturg: Van Nostrand and the Project Room, Kyle Marc Bamuthi Joseph Seago, Wazhma Samizay, Stefanie Karlin and SQUID MGMT. Pre-show dance party Lighting design: people. Michaela and Kyana (Lateef’s Amiya Brown daughters), who were part of our process. Free, Mike, Fever, Brysen, Lateef, Waylon, Floor and wall design: and Robert—my brothers from other Ben Zamora mothers. My TX family, Mom, Dad, and Adam. And thank you to Eric Pranzarone, Cover & interior photos by Gabriel Bienczycki my rock. 2 3 A NOTE FROM of young love before it knows it will fail, THE CURATOR or like an old soul making blue light music for the dawn. In the longer story, the MARC BAMUTHI JOSEPH responsibility of earning and keeping love CHIEF OF PROGRAM AND PEDAGOGY is gender fluid, playing indiscriminately across bodies like Ms. Hill’s music did in 1998.

I remember getting free…

I remember being fluid in my body in ’98. I was learning the Bay Area through farmers markets and folkloric dance classes. My body bounding against the air was the fullest expression against Clinton-era policing, my movement implicitly spoke the matter of my black life. I was fresh outta undergrad, recently up on Carter G Woodson, and thought I knew everything there was to know. Lauryn Hill’s music was the soundtrack of my naivety and stamina, the crossroads of hip hop and hope…

Our third installment of the Clas/sick Hip Can’t match this Hop series engages artists with disruptive attitudes regarding gender in freedom Rapper slash actress culture. The Forum is a literal cauldron of Lauryn more powerful opposing forces this evening. We begin than two Cleopatras with five men using the hyper masculine vocabulary of Breaking to expose the Photo by Devi Pride Bomb graffiti / fear of feminine qualities in our culture. We continue the discussion with fifteen on the tomb of Nefertiti bands recovering and reimagining the work PROGRAM OVERVIEW MC’s ain’t ready to take it of arguably the greatest female coded to the Serengetti artist in hip hop’s history, Lauryn Hill. “O’Neal synthesizes complex themes with a cohesive, penetrating aesthetic. Her latest At the Forum’s borders, and permeating work transcends disciplines and boundaries. It is a bridge between worlds, a translator for My rhymes is heavy/ through its walls, is the work of 30 YBCA opposing points of view, a force for good.” —Leah Baltus, City Arts magazine Fellows who’ve created more than a dozen like the mind of Sister Betty… material responses to the question, “Can After spending time exploring her personal influences, societal programming, and ideas about Now hear this mixture we design Freedom?” feminism in her previous work, Amy O’Neal wanted to bring men into the conversation. She realized that most of the dancing men she knew in her life were B-boys and street dancers. Where hip hop Like Ms. Hill’s seminal album, Amy O’Neal After several months of initial conversations in 2013, Opposing Forces began rehearsing in meets scripture and UnderCover investigate classic human spring 2014. Opposing Forces utilizes tropes of contemporary performance to expose fears overtures that are somehow clouded in around feminine qualities in our culture through the hyper-masculine dance style of breaking. Develop the negative hip hop’s context: love and reciprocity, With curiosity, vulnerability, and power, five world-class B-boys uncover binary perceptions Into a positive picture… absence and tender reclamation of the of gender through recorded conversations and physical explorations, all set in a futuristic body, the rising voice of youth speaking geometric landscape. Opposing Forces premiered at On the Boards in Seattle and toured to truth to power. Off Center Festival, Costa Mesa, California; TBA Festival, Portland, Oregon; the University of Hawaii, Hilo; Maui Cultural Center, Kahului, Hawaii; Kahilu Theater, Waimea, Hawaii; and Spoleto In the end, he was man enough to earn Here in the after, outside of the fluidity Festival USA, Charleston, South Carolina. her love, but not man enough to keep it. I of youth, power feels a little more scarce. could be referring to hip hop’s relationship For this evening however, I choose to To see a short documentary capturing the initial process and premiere of Opposing Forces, to Lauryn Hill, but, as my close friends remember when nothing even mattered, visit vimeo.com and search Opposing Forces Documentary. A long form documentary about the know, that wouldn’t be the full story. The even when it hurt so bad. Tonight I choose evolution and tour of Opposing Forces will be released in Fall of 2017. longer story is seismic, like the passion to get lost in the music, to use the culture to get free… 4 5 ARTIST PROFILES 2014 at YBCA, a guest panelist for 2016 include winning the 2004 B-boy World in many prestigious venues, from Lincoln Zulu Nation’s Meeting of the Minds, and Championships in London, innovating new Center to Madison Square Garden, Fashion AMY O’NEAL is a dancer, performer, twice invited to battle in Queen of the dynamic choreography as a member of the Week to Dancing with the Stars. He has choreographer, and dance educator Hill: All Ladies/All Styles battle in Seattle. Seattle Sonics “Boom Squad,” performing lectured on the history of hip-hop at Yale, equally participating in street and club Her dance writing has been published in for millions on MTV’s hit show America’s Princeton, Rutgers, and the University of dance culture and contemporary dance Dance Magazine, Art Dish Forum, Blog the Best Dance Crew, and launching Massive Washington. and performance. She is passionate Boards, and City Arts magazine. She spent Monkees’ own studio, the Beacon, where about the intersection of these worlds half of 2015 in the Bay Area working as a hundreds of students in Seattle come to while honoring their complex cultural guest artist in residence at Mills College; grow artistically. Brysen was an original MICHAEL O’NEAL JR. started dancing differences. A sought-after artist serving as choreographic architect for cast member and co-choreographer for in high school in Tacoma, Washington, and teacher for the past seventeen Citizen Dance, a large-scale dance event Opposing Forces and is currently touring as a self-taught hip hop–influenced years, O’Neal works nationally and with a corresponding mobile app at UC with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. dancer. He then received formal training internationally, choreographing for stage, Berkeley; and setting a duet on RAWdance in ballet and modern at the University of commercials, rock shows, galleries, for their show Double Exposure. She spent Washington. O’Neal loves to teach others dance films, and music videos. Her work the fall of 2016 in Los Angeles teaching at FEVER ONE is a B-boy and DJ originally and see their growth, as well as grow with is an amalgam of her diverse movement Ryan Heffington’s studio, the Sweat Spot. from Seattle who relocated to New his students. Through his art he hopes to and life experiences, presenting social Opposing Forces is her eighth evening- York in 1997 and eventually joined the inspire others to follow their dreams and commentary with dark humor and heavy length work, and she is eternally grateful world-famous Rock Steady Crew. He is continue to grow in everyday life. One of beats. She has been based in Seattle for to her collaborators for making this happen best known for the “gunzblazin” style his biggest goals in dance is to bridge the twenty years and will be splitting her time with her. amyoneal.com he developed while studying with his gap between the ballet and modern world between Seattle and Los Angeles in the mentors Icey Ice and Lil’ Lep of the New and the hip hop world, and build a stronger coming years. York City Breakers. Inspired by a poppin’ dance community in his own city and afar. A founding member of Circle of Fire, battle in Seattle’s Central District and the He is part of both the Chapter1NE and Beat O’Neal was awarded the first Distinguished ALFREDO VERGARA JR., aka “FREE,” aggression he saw in breakin’, Fever One Hippies dance crews as well as Seattle’s Alumni Award from Cornish College of has more than fifteen years of had become influenced by the spirituality AU Collective. You can find him under the the Arts in 2014. Her work has been experience deeply rooted in breaking. and competitiveness of dancing by the moniker Choreomike on YouTube and other supported by Creative Capital, Foundation He has participated in dance events and age of ten. Since then, he has performed social media. for Contemporary Arts, Mid Atlantic Arts competitions locally and internationally, Foundation, the National Dance Project including the world-famous breakdancing (both commissioning and tour-only events Freestyle Sessions (USA), Dance support), and two National Performance Delight (Japan), Red Bull Lords of the Floor Network commissioning awards. She is a (USA), Juste Debout (France), and the DanceWEB scholar (ImPulsTanz Vienna), a International Battle of the Year (Germany). two-time Artist Trust fellow, a two-time Vergara starred in a solo DVD, A Beautiful Seattle Stranger Genius Award nominee, One Man Show, and his experience in and a Herb Alpert Award nominee. breaking and other dance styles such as hip hop, house dancing, freestyle, and O’Neal is a longtime collaborator of the the Brazilian martial arts/dance capoeira musician-comedian Reggie Watts, worked has led him to take part in judging with Savion Glover and Daniel Bernard competitions and discussion panels. He Roumain, and danced in the Pat Graney teaches workshops all over the world. Company in her formative years. From 2000 to 2010 she was the co-director of locust (music/dance/video) with BRYSEN “JUST BE” ANGELES, a founding the musician-composer Zeke Keeble, member of the Massive Monkees crew, creating six evening-length works and started B-boying in 1994. Drawing early several shorter works. She was also the influence from legendary 1990s Seattle lead singer for Keeble’s former band, crews such as DVS, BOSS Crew, and Rock Marrow. She taught at Velocity Dance Steady Crew, Brysen and fellow crew Center in Seattle for fifteen years and members from Untouchable Style Monkees currently co-teaches and hosts House would go on to partner with M.A.S.S.I.V.E. open classes and sessions at the Beacon: crew to form Massive Monkees in 1999. Massive Monkees Studio in Seattle with Both on and off the dance floor, Angeles Dani Tirrell. In recent years she was an plays a key leadership role in Massive invited dancer for Clas/Sick Hip Hop in Monkees. Some of his accomplishments Photo by Nate Watters 6 7 MOZESLATEEF is an artist who rhymes, WAYLON DUNGAN aka WD4D blasts dances, draws, acts, models, and films. the hinges off genre definitions with Lateef is an active member of Circle of Fire his inventive and eclectic style. A Crew, which strives to build community knowledgeable producer and engaging by using the crew’s skills to maintain the performer, WD4D was named champion of B-boy/dance/artist culture and express Seattle’s 2010 Battle of the Mega-Mixes. positivity and creativity in the process. When he is not pushing forward his unique Lateef and Circle of Fire Crew have beat-flipping sound, WD4D is supporting performed and competed internationally the musical community and promoting at the Korea Hip Hop Festival, Battle of the other artists who blend futuristic hip hop Year (Germany), Dance Delight (Japan), with electronic possibilities. He is also a and Juste Debout (France). In Seattle resident at the weekly Future Beat/B Boy Lateef has performed with Circle of Fire at party Stop Biting, a forward-thinking night the Seattle Center EMP opening and the of music in Seattle. He has shared stages Paramount Theater, and with Soul Shifters with Machinedrum, Lunice, Daedelus, at the Moore Theater. He has taught Sweatson Klank, B. Bravo, Onra, and many workshops and breakdance classes to more. special-needs youth at Camp Long, and to students at Spectrum Dance Studio, Gage Academy of Arts, and the Beacon: Massive AMIYA BROWN is a lighting designer and Monkees Studio. He has collaborated with visual artist based in Seattle. She holds the band Global Heat, and won Hard Rock a master’s degree in theatrical lighting Café’s Rock Band competition. Recently, design from the University of Washington. Lateef represented Circle of Fire in the film Designing nationally and internationally Tribelution, which explores the evolution of for theater, dance, and opera, she hip hop. He is currently working on another specializes in generative performance album with his rap group Dirty Scientifix, works. Her work has been presented at and working on Circle of Fire’s twentieth- the Baryshnikov Performing Arts Center; anniversary event. New York; the Joyce Theater, New York; the Kasser Theater, Montclair, New Jersey; On the Boards, Seattle; the Moore, Seattle; Based in Seattle, ROBERT EYERMAN, aka REDCAT, Los Angeles; ODC, San Francisco; B-BOY BOBBY DRAKE, started breaking in the Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis; the 2005 at the age of thirteen. Three years Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; later he founded the Dog Pound Crew. Maui Center for the Arts; Miami Light His group frequently works alongside Project, Florida; Della Nuova Danza Roma; the Seattle Theater Group, dancing in Le Quai, Angers, France, and many others. productions such as DANCE This, Global She received a Gypsy Rose Lee Award in Party, and the Sasquatch Music Festival. 2012 for her work on The Skriker (Janet Eyerman holds degrees in chemistry Findley Production) and recently designed and biochemistry from the University lights for the Bessie Award– winning of Washington. His passions include production Girl Gods. Long-standing dance, music, medicine, education, and collaborators include Pat Graney, Amy philanthropy. When he is not conducting O’Neal, zoe | juniper, Alice Gosti, Kyle clinical research in the hepatology clinic Loven, Kate Wallich, and Washington at a local Seattle hospital, he provides Ensemble Theatre. amiyabrowndesign.com in-home tutoring to youth, writes music, trains for competitions, and brainstorms how to further impact the world through BEN ZAMORA is an American artist art and science. Eyerman enjoys jamming whose work is primarily light based. He on his guitar, playing with lasers, and has created large-scale installations traveling the world with his girlfriend. and sculptures for the Park Avenue Armory, New York; Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival; Art Basel/Design Miami; Kunsthalle Krems, Austria; the Photos by Gabriel Bienczycki 8 9 producer (Microsoft, Volvo, McDonalds, YBCA CONTRIBUTERS Harley Davidson) and opened up a documentary film production studio, Seago YBCA PROGRAM STAFF LIST: Media. He currently splits his time between Marc Bamuthi Joseph, chief of program documenting international tours and and pedagogy shows for musicians and directing short- Isabel Yrigoyen, associate director of and long-form documentary film projects. performing arts His projects include a documentary Claire Shoun, performing arts programs based in Zimbabwe, a six-part television manager documentary series based in Alaska, and several art- and artist-based films. His YBCA PRODUCTION STAFF LIST: work focuses on human-interest stories, Jodi Feder, director of production often related to the arts and the creative Martin Barron, associate director of process. Seago worked with Amy O’Neal production to create a short documentary about the June Higginbotham, production manager initial process and premiere of Opposing Thomas White, theater head technician Forces. He is working on a longer-form Cedric Lathan, theater head audio engineer documentary about the evolution and tour Greg Wilson, forum head technician of the show to highlight how the work, and those involved, have changed over time. YBCA BOARD OF DIRECTORS LIST: OFFICERS Paul Connolly, president STEFANIE KARLIN is the founder and Rekha Patel, vice president lead producer at SQUID MGMT, working Erik Mayo, treasurer as an independent producer to leading Berit Ashla, secretary Photo by Gabriel Bienczycki West Coast performance and dance Diana Cohn, member at large artists. Since SQUID MGMT’s inception in January 2014, Karlin has led the charge BOARD MEMBERS Frye Art Museum, Seattle; and Suyama BOBOJAN was co-created by Danial with a constant interest in building allied Peter Bransten Space, Seattle, as well as a number of Hellman and Wazhma Samizay. The partnerships and community involvement. Jeff Chang other galleries, museums, private art principle of the line is clothing that makes She was managing director of zoe | Amy Eliot collections, and public art projects. you feel beautiful. Each piece has been juniper from July 2012 to November Meklit Hadero Zamora’s work moves seamlessly tested on hundreds of bodies to ensure 2016 and was instrumental in the Elna Hall, PhD between performance and visual art; he that it feels like it was made for you. formation of zoe | juniper’s development Kevin King creates light-based sculptures and art We take pride in our line being made in committee and board of directors, the D. J. Kurtze installations for performance-based work, Seattle with sustainability in mind. The organization’s incorporation as a 501(c)3, Jocelyn Lamm Startz including projects with Kronos Quartet; the clothing line was inspired by Samizay’s and the company’s ongoing organizational Laura Livoti Berlin Philharmonic; the Barbican, London; grandmother and her four daughters, each success. She had the honor of working at Sabrina Riddle Deutsche Oper Berlin; the Los Angeles one having a distinct personality, features, Seattle’s Velocity Dance Center, serving as Catalina Ruiz-Healy Philharmonic; and the Hammer Museum, and body type. producing director (2011–14) and business Paul Ryder Los Angeles. His artistic collaborators have manager (2014–16), assisting Tonya Diane Sanchez included Bill Viola, Gronk, Peter Sellars, The son of an acclaimed deaf actor, Seattle Lockyer and the rest of the team in the Vicki Shipkowitz Steve Reich, and Beryl Korot; the renowned native KYLE SEAGO was earning awards at revitalization of the Northwest’s leading Meg Spriggs architecture firm Olson Kundig Architects; international film festivals while he was contemporary dance center. She has also Marc Vogl and Saint Genet. He was resident lighting still in high school. After helping cofound worked for several other arts organizations Vinitha Watson designer for Amy O’Neal and Zeke Keeble’s the National Film Festival for Talented in Seattle and Chicago, including the Karen Wickre performance brainchild, locust music/ Youth (now the largest youth film festival Seattle International Film Festival, Chicago Zak Williams dance/video, from 2005 to 2010. Opposing in the world), he began working as a TV Public Radio, Northwest Dance Network, Johann Zimmern Forces is his first collaboration with producer on shows such as CW’s America’s and the Moving Architects. O’Neal where lighting is not his main role. Next Top Model and MTV’s The Phone. Seago EMERITUS His geometric landscape for Opposing has produced more than thirty hours of Helen Sause Forces had light in mind, but Amiya Brown prime-time television and traveled to more designed the response. than fifteen countries for international www.benzamora.com shoots. After moving his home base back to Seattle, he worked as a commercial

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