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Marc Bamuthi Joseph the Break/S: a Mixtape for the Stage Thursday–Saturday, March 26–28, 2009 Marc BaMuthi Joseph the break/s: a mixtape for the stage Thursday–Saturday, March 26–28, 2009 Photo by Bethanie Hines mcachicago.org Marc Bamuthi JOseph— ThE Break/S: A Mixtape for ThE stagE By Marc Bamuthi Joseph World premiere productions of the break/s: a mixtape for the stage: 2008 Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors for the Living Word Project Theatre of Louisville, Kentucky (March 11–29, 2008) and Walker Directed by Michael John Garcés Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (April 10–12, 2008) Lead commissioning and development support: Actors Theatre performed by of Louisville; the Walker Art Center, with support from a Joyce Award; National Black Arts Festival; and Yerba Buena Center Marc Bamuthi Joseph for the Arts. DJ Excess the break/s was developed during residencies at Actors Tommy Shepherd (aka Soulati) Theatre of Louisville; Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; University of Wisconsin at Madison; Walker Art Center; and Z Space in San Francisco, California. Dramaturgy by Brian Freeman The project has received generous support from The Wallace Video and co-set design by David Szlasa Alexander Gerbode Foundation and The William and Flora Lighting and co-set design by Hewlett Foundation Emerging Playwrights 2006 Initiative; The National Endowment for the Arts; Zellerbach Family James Clotfelter Foundation; Creative Capital; The James Irvine Foundation; Choreography by Stacey Printz Rockefeller MAP Fund; and Association of Performing Arts Documentary >lms by Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi Presenters Ensemble Theatre Collaborations Grant Program, a component of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Theatre Musical score composed by Initiative. It was commissioned by Youth Speaks through the Ajayi Lumumba Jackson East Bay Fund for Artists (EBFA) at the East Bay Community Foundation. Support for the EBFA comes from the Ford Arrangements and remixes by DJ Excess Foundation’s Leveraging Investment in Creativity (LINC) and Soulati Initiative, The James Irvine Foundation, The Surdna Foundation, Artistic consultation by Je= Chang The Wattis Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the East Bay Community Foundation. Executive producer: MAPP International Productions Production support: Kelvin Productions, LLC Technical supervisor: Pamela Traynor Stage manager: Rebecca Cullars Audio/video technician: Bill Toles “Record Stacks” was composed by Soulati, “Gravity Can’t Help Me Now” was com- posed by DJ Excess. The MCA presentation of the break/s is supported Marc Bamuthi Joseph extends special thanks to: The Youth in part by a grant from the National Endowment Speaks/Living Word Family, Erica Geller, Chinaka Hodge, Mai- for the Arts. Lei Pecorari, Danny Hoch, Faustin Linyekula, Ken Foster, Claire Verlet and the Centre National de la Danse, the entire sta= at MCA backstage hospitality is generously provided MAPP International Productions, and Willie Ney. by Whole Foods Market. ARTISTS UP CLOSE To increase appreciation of the break/s: a mixtape for the stage, the MCA organized these intimate opportunities for audience members to engage with the artists. On Saturday, February 28, the MCA presented New On Tuesday, March 24, the Chicago Cultural America: Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Je= Chang in Center (72 E. Randolph Street) hosted Bamuthi Conversation. Reflecting on their creative trajecto- for a talk on his unique dual-career experience as ries, Bamuthi and journalist Je= Chang discussed a performance artist and artistic director of Youth their experiences working for change through youth Speaks. He provided insight into the infrastructure and community organizing, media justice, culture, of the arts and its role in a=ecting political and the arts, and hip-hop activism. Stephanie Shonekan, social policy. This event was co-organized with Black World Studies Director at Columbia College, the Administration and Policy Department at the facilitated their dialogue. School of the Art Institute. On Monday, March 23, at Little Black Pearl (1060 thursday, March 26 E. 47th Street), Bamuthi discussed the globaliza- First Night postshow talk tion of hip-hop from his perspective as a member Audience members are invited to stay for a talk of the generation that came into adulthood during with Marc Bamuthi Joseph and collaborators the movement’s initial rise in the US. Earlier that immediately following the performance. day, he led the second of three training and creative sessions with youth who are participating in Brave New Voices Chicago 2009, the five-day festival produced by Bamuthi as part of Youth Speaks, the nation’s leading spoken word organization based in Oakland, California. Brave New Voices chicago 2009, July 14–19 Crowning Brave New Voices week is Life is Living, Join us for Bamuthi’s annual touring festival that a full day of interdisciplinary, intergenerational, celebrates the power of youth and culture. More eco-equity performance events. Life is Living than 500 Teen Poetry Slam champions are con- is part of Bamuthi’s year-round, national, eco- vening from 40 states to build community and empowering campaign run by his theater com- hone their craft as participants in this national pany, the Living Word Project, which is spawning competition as well as master workshops led by a new form of green spoken stories to represent renowned poets and writers. The festival also changing perspectives on what it means to be features many free public events at the MCA, environmentally just. The Merle Reskin Theatre, the Chicago Theater, For the Brave New Voices Chicago 2009 parks, cafes, and other sites. Highlights include schedule, visit youthspeaks.org later music concerts, gra;ti mural bouts, and dance this summer. performances by leading hip-hop artists. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Marc Bamuthi Joseph ect Youth Speaks, for which he mentors 13–19- is an educator and performer, and the artistic direc- year-old writers and curates the Living Word tor of the Living Word Project, a theater company Festival for Literary Arts. His next performance dedicated to the aesthetics of post-hip-hop per- project, red black and green: a blues, documents formance. In fall 2007 Bamuthi graced the cover the eco-equity movement toward green-collar jobs of Smithsonian magazine after being named one in black neighborhoods. of America’s Top Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences. He is a National Poetry Slam champion, DJ excess Broadway veteran, GOLDIE award winner, featured is a pioneer in the world of scratch music, an inno- artist on Russell Simmons’s Def Poetry on HBO, vation that melds standard music production with and inaugural recipient of the United States Artists turntabling. He is part of the world-renowned DJ Rockefeller Fellowship. crew Ned Hoddings and the up-and-coming crew The Crate Bullies. DJ Excess made his MCA debut Bamuthi entered the world of literary performance in 2006 with fellow New York native IXL as Hop-Fu, after crossing the sands of “traditional” theater, a multimedia project combining hip-hop music with most notably on Broadway in the Tony Award–win- kung-fu films created by John Carluccio and Barry ning The Tap Dance kid and Stand-Up Tragedy. His Cole. Other scoring projects include No Condition evening-length works have been presented through- is Permanent and Apostrophe for the gra;ti col- out the United States and Europe and include Word lective The Barnstormers. His studio production Becomes flesh, which was part of the MCA’s spring credits include mix CDs and vinyl “bringles” (break 2006 season, as well as Scourge, De/Cipher, and record/singles) released through his record label No Man’s Land. His work has been made possible Styluswars; scratches created for Pepsi International, by several prestigious foundation awards, including Sesame Street, and Schie=elin & Sommerset grants from the Ford Foundation, the Center for (Hennessy Cognac); and music featured in the 2004 Cultural Innovation, Creative Capital, the National Showtime series Street Time, and the 2005 Playboy Performance Network Creation Fund, the Wallace A. video game The Mansion. Gerbode Foundation, the Creative Work Fund, the Rockefeller MAP Fund, the National Endowment Excess has performed throughout North for the Arts, the Hewlett Foundation, and a Dance America, Asia, and Europe. He won the 1999 Advance award from the PEW Foundation. International Turntablist Federation East Coast Advancement Class Championships and the 2000 As a nationally recognized educator and essayist, US Advancement Class and Western Hemisphere Bamuthi has lectured at more than 100 colleges Scratching Championships. He has been featured and universities, been a commentator on National in UrB magazine’s “Next 100” issue, Newsweek, Public Radio, and held adjunct professorships Scratch, The Source, XXL, and fader. at Stanford University, Mills College, and the University of Wisconsin. Bamuthi is an artist tommy shepherd (aka soulati) in residence at ODC Theater; Yerba Buena Center is an actor, playwright, b-boy, rapper, drummer, for the Arts; and Intersection for the Arts, all in San and beatboxer. As an actor he appears on the chil- Francisco, California. He is most proud of his proj- dren’s cooking show Doof and toured internationally Photo by Umi Vaughan with Marc Bamuthi Joseph in Scourge. He at Second Stage, Woolly Mammoth, the Atlantic scored the music of Donald Lacy’s Color Struck Theater Co., The Cherry Lane, Repertorio Español, and is cofounder of the hip-hop band Felonious: the Huntington Theatre Company, Florida Stage, onelovehiphop, which performs internationally Playwrights Horizons, and Yale Repertory Theatre. and also develops theatrical productions. Shepherd Cornerstone Theater recently produced Garcés’s is a longtime Hybrid Resident Artist at Intersection play Los illegals, created in residence with day labor- for the Arts in San Francisco, California, which pre- ers and domestic workers. His other playwright sented his first one-act solo performance work, credits include tostitos (Ensemble Studio Theatre The Mf in ME, at its Grounded Festival of New 2008 Marathon); points of departure (INTAR); Acts Works. He is also a member of resident theater of Mercy (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); audio company Campo Santo.
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