CITY of LOVE & DISASTER excerpts

Scenes from the performance of CITY of LOVE & DISASTER at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in March 2009. CITY of LOVE & DISASTER a jazzsoul rockumentary with live music, dance, animation and shadow play about freedom marches, race riots and the first all Black Shakespearean theater company in early New York. When: Thursday March 26 and Friday March 27 at 8 pm At: Tribeca Performing Arts Center 199 Chambers St NY NY 10007 212 220 1460 for tickets For more info call 917 826 7933 or email danieljose1@gmail.com Description: Just after the fall of slavery in New York, free Blacks took to the streets in an all out celebration of freedom. The events that followed, including the surge of the first all Black Shakespearean theater company, the Manhattan race riots and the exodus of free people of color into Brooklyn, are chronicled in this new mutli-media show. Featuring original choreography, poetry and shadow puppetry set to live music by Brooklyn Latin Soul group, BURUNDANGA, this will be a live historical document, created and conceived in collaboration with artists, historians, and young people from around New York.

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Music

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• music
• history
• performing arts
• theater
• dance
• slavery
• freedom
• African American History
• Black history
• Shakespeare