Hip Hop Saved My Life
World Premiere
Thursday – Saturday, March 26 – 28 @ 8pm
Sunday, March 29 @ 7pm
Admission: Pay-What-You-Can
Performers: Ant Black, Kendrick Dial, Lauren Dockweiler, Rudy Francisco, grace shinhae jun, Jesse Mills, Lavina Rich, Misa Suiter, DJ KrazyKut and Keomi Tarver
Hip Hop Saved My Life explores the activism in Hip Hop culture that creates voice for the marginalized, bridges global communities, and empowers young women. Following their successful collaboration The Movement, bkSOUL and Collective Purpose have come together again to explore the power of love and Hip Hop.
Bridging the worlds of underground hip hop and dance/theatre, the collaborations of bkSOUL and Collective Purpose use images, words, and the music of movement, both
social and artistic, to give their viewers a window into the lived experience of oppression, rejection, rebellion, and transformation.
bkSOUL, founded in 2001, is a community of artists grounded in rhythm and beats, drawing from different movement traditions. bkSOUL Artistic Director grace shinhae jun is a choreographer, educator, performer, and scholar. Locally, she teaches at UCSD, Southwestern College, City College, and transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project.
Collective Purpose is a group of performing artists whose mission is to elevate, edutain, and enlighten others through words and performance. Ant Black has been called a mastermind of paradox in urban culture, and his work has been described as "fierce, but it’s also camp, and Black’s ability to convey both is a coup de theatre".
