CORPORATESTHENICS By Baindu D. Kalokoh To Be Featured At DUAF 2018

THEATER at Downtown Urban Arts Festival 2018 will feature Corporatesthenics, written and performed by Baindu D. Kalokoh. Mary E. Hodges is the director.

From unsuccessfully climbing the corporate ladder to triumphantly summiting Mount Everest, Black Television Network's favorite physical trainer premieres the newest edition to her record selling fitness series. Her strength and conditioning techniques are essential to skipping the bottom rung and breaking glass ceilings in every profession.

The performance is only on one night. Friday, April 20, 2018, 8pm, at Theatre 80 St. Marks, 80 St. Marks Place, New York, NY 10003. Tickets are $20 and available on www.TheRealBaindu.com.

Corporatesthenics, is reminiscent of the 80's aerobics craze and modern-day life coaching. Candee Dandee, the energetic host, trains her clients to overcome obstacles encountered at the office. Movement exercises, fan mail, sponsors, magazine publishings and spirited aerobics routines are shared hyperbolically.

Kalokoh states, "I wrote this piece because numerous friends, working in unrelated fields, shared the same anecdotes of micro-aggressions and racism at the workplace. I was inspired to write something about their experiences. No matter one's background, all audience members will leave with an ability to relate to something said by Candee Dandee."

Baindu D. Kalokoh's monologue, Don't, was featured in 50in50: What Place Do We Have in This Movement?, at the Billie Holiday Theatre. She is a member of the New Perspectives Theatre Company 2018 Women's Work Short Play Lab. Kalokoh performed her solo show, Platform Griot, at the Midtown International Theatre Festival 2017; to sold out audiences. She was a finalist in the 2017 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship. Her play, Tenneh, was read at the National Black Theatre Festival Garland Lee Thompson, Sr. Reader's Theatre of New Works and the DC Black Theatre Festival 2017 New Works Reading Series. Short+Sweet Dubai Theatre Festival 2016 featured her piece Hair Ye, Hair Ye.

Mary E. Hodges most recently directed Liz Morgan's Our Father and Derek Lee McPhatter's Serious Adverse Affects. Hodges also collaborated with director Elizabeth Margid on Ted Greenberg's one-person show ACE, as a movement coach. Other selected credits include directing for: 48 HOURS IN... HARLEM (Stacey Rose's The Ballad O' Nigg-O-Lee); New Perspective Theatre-Short Play Lab (Holly Hepp-Galvan's Sex with Robots); and Queens Theatre-The Park Plays (Ngozi Anyanwu's G.O.A.T.). She has staged and directed in venues all across the city, working with writers on new work: The Davenport Theatre; The Kumble Theatre; The Castillo Theatre; Estrogenius Festival; Theatre For A New City; Libraries; Churches; The Black Theatre Festival; Baruch Performing Arts Center; Community Centers; and Living Rooms.