Double Edge Theatre Adds Benefit Performance of ONCE A BLUE MOON

Double Edge Theatre announced that it will add a special benefit performance of the sold-out Once a Blue Moon (Cada Luna Azul) on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016 at 8pm. Proceeds from this special performance will help support DE's free Latin American Spectacle performance this September in Springfield, MA, presented by Springfield City Mosaic. This weekend of free performances will feature over fifty Springfield youth performing alongside the artists of Double Edge.

The August 2nd benefit will help cover costs for the Double Edge company to lead teaching and training of high school students both at their rural Farm in Ashfield and on site in Springfield. Proceeds from the event will also be used to mount this elaborate site-specific production in various locations in Forest Park, and to bring South American guest artists Manuel Uriona and Micaela Farias Gomez, who created the musical score for the performance, to work on the project. This production will lead spectators to different locales around the park, and will be free to the community. Last May, Double Edge performed this site-specific Latin American Spectacle in Boston's Jamaica Plain, working closely and performing with youth from Boston's Hyde Square Task Force, an organization that works to empower youth through the arts. The Spectacle started in and around the former Blessed Sacrament Church, marched down Centre Street, and concluded in Mozart Park, and was attended by over 1000 people over two days. The Bay State Banner wrote: "The performance became a physical take-back of the neighborhood. Shopkeepers came out of empanada restaurants and cigar stores to watch the parade. By this point in the spectacle it was no longer performance, it was a community coming together to celebrate their heritage."

Stacy Klein, Founder and Artistic Director, said "Our project in Springfield is central to our ongoing creation of living culture, in true partnership with youth, local artists, and audiences. We hope that people will see this benefit performance as an opportunity to help us share the gift of this work with a community that otherwise might not have access."

Double Edge Theatre was founded by Stacy Klein in 1982 as an artist-owned ensemble theatre, in which each member would be responsible for the art making as well as the business and board leadership. In 1994 the ensemble moved from Boston to a 100-acre Farm in the Ashfield Massachusetts Hilltowns to further the sustainability of the theatre and its international artist collaborations.

Double Edge Theatre's mission is to create a 'living culture' by developing the highest quality of original theatre performance, based on the long-term imaginative work of its ensemble of artists and their rich interaction with the communities in which the work takes place-and by cultivating a permanent center of performance, training, research, and cultural exchange at The Farm in Ashfield, Massachusetts.

This project is supported in part by the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Irene E. & George A. Davis Foundation.

Double Edge Theatre's Benefit Performance of
Once a Blue Moon (Cada Luna Azul)
Tuesday, August 2 at 8pm

Double Edge Theatre, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield MA

Tickets are $75.00, proceeds support Double Edge's community and training work in Springfield's Latin American Spectacle

www.doubleedgetheatre.org or 413.628.0277 for tickets

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