Prelude in the Parks 2024 Festival
Pliable Futures
Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble
Interactive Theater
Friday, June 7, 2024
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6pm
Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn
Throughout the Park. Begins at the entrance at North Portland Ave and Myrtle Ave.
Presented by Mov!ng Culture Projects and The Segal Center in collaboration with
Presented by Mov!ng Culture Projects and The Segal Center
Experience a dynamic fusion of jazz, dance, and theater addressing the global plastic crisis in this unique, durational, site-specific performance. Strike Anywhere’s talented ensemble of jazz musicians, dancers, and actors will lead audiences through the park using Soundpainting—a live composing sign language—to guide their improvisations in real-time. The ensemble will weave music, movement, and narrative into a captivating exploration of our world's plastic plight. This performance deftly employs creativity and humor to spark dialogue about an urgent environmental issue.
Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble
Established in 1997, the Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble is a permanent collective of jazz musicians, modern dancers, and actors. Performers collaborate through an ensemble-based process to create politically-charged, original works. Strike Anywhere’s mission is to inspire empathy, creativity, and social awareness through provocative performance and innovative education. Its work is guided by the words of Bertolt Brecht, "Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it." SA performances always feature live music, physical theater and modern dance. The company applies structures and concepts from American jazz to their interdisciplinary improvisations to create performances that are engaging and alive. Strike Anywhere is the preeminent theatre company in the United States practicing Soundpainting, a universal sign-language developed by composer Walter Thompson for live composition with improvisers.
Location
Throughout the Park. Begins at the entrance at North Portland Ave and Myrtle Ave.
