No Boundaries Continues With THE BREAK/S 1/22, 1/23, 1/24

NO BOUNDARIES: A Series of Global Performances, presented by Yale Repertory Theatre and World Performance Project at Yale, continues its 2008-09 season with the break/s: a mixtape for stage by Marc Bamuthi Joseph by the Living Word Project, directed by Michael John Garcés, at the University Theatre (222 York Street) for three performances only: Thursday, January 22, Friday, January 23, and Saturday, January 24 at 8PM.

the break/s: a mixtape for stage is a multimedia odyssey through the United States, Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and back again. Fusing music, theatre, dance and film, spoken-word virtuoso Marc Bamuthi Joseph performs the living history of the hip-hop generation as well as his own deeply personal and often humorous exploration of race and identity.

Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a Stanford University IDA resident artist, HBO Def Poet, and inaugural recipient of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship. Recently named one of America's Top Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences by Smithsonian magazine, his performance in the break/s has been hailed by The New York Times as "gloriously eloquent in its physicality."
Contains strong language.
The running time for the break/s is approximately 80 minutes.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE AND TICKET INFORMATION
the break/s: a mixtape for stage will play three performances only at the University Theatre (222 York Street):

Thursday, January 22 at 8PM
Friday, January 23 at 8PM
Saturday, January 24 at 8PM

Tickets are $35, $25 for seniors, and $10 for students, and can be purchased online at www.yalerep.org, by phone at (203) 432-1234, and in person at the Yale Repertory Theatre Box Office (1120 Chapel Street, at York Street). Group rates are also available.

RELATED PROGRAMS
No Boundaries offers a variety of programs that allow audiences to engage with its diverse group of artists before and after the performances. All events are free and open to the public.

Performing the Breaks: African American Aesthetic Structures
Lecture by Thomas F. DeFranz
Wednesday, January 21, 5:30-7PM
Afro-American Cultural Center, 211 Park Street

Many African American expressive cultures derive their aesthetic capacities from the manipulation of rhythm. In these modes, subjectivity emerges in high contrast at the crossroads of performance execution-at the breaks. This talk will explore the break as an aesthetic capacity accessed by performers in spoken word, music, and dance genres to explore expressive possibilities enabled by the breaking of the beat.

Co-Sponsored with Afro-American Cultural Center and African American Studies.

Master's Tea with Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Thursday, January 22 at 4PM
Trumbull College Master's House, 241 Elm Street

Trumbull College hosts an informal talk with Marc Bamuthi Joseph.

Dance Workshop with Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Friday, January 23 and Saturday, January 24, 2-4PM
3rd Floor Dance Studio, Loft Studios, 294 Elm Street

An interactive studio session with choreographer Marc Bamuthi Joseph. Capacity is limited to the first 25 people to arrive on the day of the workshop.

Co-Sponsored with Alliance for Dance at Yale.

Talk Backs
Q&A sessions with Marc Bamuthi Joseph will be held immediately following the Thursday, January 22 and Fridyay, January 23 performances.

NO BOUNDARIES, presented by Yale Repertory Theatre and World Performance Project at Yale, celebrates the diversity of voices and experiences in today's world. NO BOUNDARIES explores-and explodes-the frontiers of theatrical invention through cutting-edge, thought-provoking dance, music, and theatre. Tearing down cultural, linguistic, and geographic barriers, NO BOUNDARIES extends and enhances the educational mission of Yale University through a series of performances by artistic innovators from around the globe-right here in New Haven, right here at Yale.

Also this season:
Unfolding simultaneously in the realms of documentary and drama, the US Premiere of Witness to the Ruins by Mapa Teatro (March 26-28) is the powerful testimony of Santa Inés-El Cartucho, one of the most ancient and emblematic neighborhoods of downtown Bogotá that was systematically demolished to pave the way for a new public park, displacing thousands of its working-class residents.

www.yalerep.org/noboundaries
www.yale.edu/wpp

 

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