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Rebellum - Other Arrangements (Rock Star) (2015)
Gentrification has been the subject of countless plays and performances in New York, but the number of productions taking it on seems to have increased dramatically in recent years. Things picked up steam in 2010 with the New York premiere of Clybourne Park at Playwrights Horizon in Manhattan, as well as the launch of The Civilians’ musical about the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, titled In the Footprint. In the past few months alone you could have seen LaTonia Phipps’s Now Harlem… GENTRIFY THIS, Urban Theatre Movement’s HANDBALL, Penny Arcade’s performance piece Longing Lasts Longer, and the People’s Theater Project show Pardon Our Appearance, among others. And this week you can catch a new work in progress, Brer Rabbit: The Opera (full title: Brer Rabbit The Opera: A Funky Meditation On Gentrification [Work-in-Progress]), created by performance artistAisha Cousins and writer and musician Greg Tate, along with Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber, which he founded.
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Brer Rabbit The Opera: A Funky Meditation On #Gentrification f/ @aishacousins & @BurntSugarBand Presented by @BRICartsmedia Thursday, January 22 | Friday, January 23, 8pm BRIC House Ballroom | 647 Fulton Street (Enter on Rockwell Place) Brooklyn, NY 11217 Admission: $15 adv., $20 doors
What happens when a black middle aged cool marketer at the tipping point in his battle to claim the American dream moves into a notoriously dangerous black neighborhood that just happens to be at the tipping point in its battle with gentrification? Find out in this adult exploration of tricksterism, techno-anismism, and urban survival techniques developed by performance artist Aisha Cousins, musician Greg Tate, and Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber as part of their 2014 BRIC Fireworks Residency. Directed by Letitia Guillory.
Brer Rabbit The Opera: A Funky Meditation On Gentrification (Work-in-Progress) tackles the modern dilemma of gentrification through the lens of legendary black folklore hero, Brer Rabbit, and his birthplace, the Briar Patch. It will merge music, performance art, and community engagement to create a final piece that engages adults of all cultures in reflecting on the life lessons our respective Briar Patches have taught us.
Who is Brer Rabbit? Brer Rabbit is a trickster character in folktales of African, African-American, and Native American Culture. He is the consummate trickster, who typically succeeds by his wits rather than by brawn. The Briar Patch (considered a dangerous place by outsiders) is Brer Rabbit’s home and the place where he feels most comfortable.
Modern Griots Interviews: Aisha Cousins and Brer Rabbit The Opera
Brer Rabbit: The Opera poster
On Thursday and Friday, Brooklyn-based artist Aisha Cousins will present her work-in-progress, Brer Rabbit The Opera: A Funky Meditation On Gentrification, at BRIC House Ballroom as part of their Fireworks residency program. Directed by Letitia Guillory, and in collaboration with Greg Tate and Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber, the production follows “…a black middle…
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Brer Rabbit the Opera: A Funk Meditation on Gentrification Thurs Jan 22 @ 8PM Fri Jan 23 @ 8PM at BRIC House - 647 Fulton St (At Rockwell Pl), Brooklyn, NY $15 advance / $18 at the door
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What happens when a black middle aged cool marketer at the tipping point in his battle to claim the American dream moves into a notoriously dangerous black neighborhood that just happens to be at the tipping point in its battle with gentrification? Find out in this adult exploration of tricksterism, techno-anismism, and urban survival techniques developed by performance artist Aisha Cousins, musician Greg Tate, and Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber as part of their 2014 BRIC Fireworks Residency. Directed by Letitia Guillory.
Brer Rabbit The Opera: A Funky Meditation On Gentrification (Work-in-Progress) tackles the modern dilemma of gentrification through the lens of legendary black folklore hero, Brer Rabbit, and his birthplace, the Briar Patch. It will merge music, performance art, and community engagement to create a final piece that engages adults of all cultures in reflecting on the life lessons our respective Briar Patches have taught us.
Who is Brer Rabbit? Brer Rabbit is a trickster character in folktales of African, African-American, and Native American Culture. He is the consummate trickster, who typically succeeds by his wits rather than by brawn. The Briar Patch (considered a dangerous place by outsiders) is Brer Rabbit’s home and the place where he feels most comfortable.
Let’s begin with the obvious: to attempt a comprehensive exhibition of contemporary art from across Brooklyn would be not only impossible but foolish, a kind of Tower of Babel of artistic practice. And so the Brooklyn Museum’s eagerly awaited Crossing Brooklyn is not a sweeping survey but a tight, thematic show, focused mostly on one specific type of art making manifest throughout the borough.
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Moving on the Wires: News, Posts and New Music
Moving on the Wires: News, Posts and New Music
Brer Rabbit:The Opera. Poster by LaRonda Davis.
*Atlanta BlackStar has a new series called blerds, which features topics on technology, lifestyle, education and the arts. Rasheedah Phillips of The Afrofuturist Affair is the main editor of the series and here is one of the articles, “Afrofuturism: Black Presence in Sci-Fi Worlds of Technology, Magic, Fantasy:” “This is where afrofuturism as a…
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Aisha Cousins, 2013 Create Change Public Artist-in-Residence with The Laundromat Project