In celebration of Lower East Side History Month, Poetic Theater Productions and New York Theatre Workshop are teaming up together to offer a free masterclass with Baba Israel on Wednesday May 15th, at 7PM Eastern Time.
PERFORMANCE LIFE
Bringing your story onstage through monologue, spoken word or song.
Bring your curiosity and memory to play with bringing autobiographical material into story and verse. our personal stories hold depth and experience and universal resonance when crafted with vulnerability and surprising complementary elements. We’ll focus on personal stories that center around the LES. In these troubled times, to be witnessed with intention and to share with resilience offers so much of what we need right now! Expect to improvise, write, move, beatbox, and reflect and share in both small and big groups!
The workshop is jointly produced by Poetic Theater Productions and New York Theatre Workshop in celebration of Lower East Side History Month.
This masterclass will take place in the rehearsal studio of La Mama’s Great Jones Building (47 Great Jones St).
Baba Israel is a Hip Hop/theater artist, poet, educator and curator raised in New York by parents who were core members of the Living Theatre. He has toured and developed projects in thirty four countries, often working as a cultural ambassador. Baba is part of Bronx Banda with Arturo O’Farrill and has shared the stage with artists such as KRS ONE, Lester Bowie, Outkast, Bahamadia and Medusa. He is a core member of Hip Hop/Soul project Soul Inscribed who recently completed the American Music Abroad program and released their second album Tune Up on Tokyo Dawn Records. He co-created Cannabis! A viper vaudeville produced by HERE and premiered at La MaMa. He holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College where he studied with Daniel Alexander Jones and is the Artistic Director of the Performance Project based at the University Settlement.
Baba Israel has collaborated with Poetic Theater Productions on 8 projects since its founding in 2010.