'Kuumba Lynx: Educatin' Energy' at Steppenwolf 5/22

Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its 2008 Traffic Series with KUUMBA LYNX: Educatin' Energy – Thursday, May 22, 2008 in the Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St.

Fusing literary and performance art with music and movement (including fresh new footworkin' – the made-in-Chicago dance craze), Kuumba Lynx presents an evening of engaging hip-hop theater.  The production, Educatin' Energy, strives to empower Chicago's youth by developing programs that preserve, promote and present urban (hip-hop) culture, both as an artistic aesthetic and as a social justice movement.

The recent winner of Young Chicago Author's Louder Than A Bomb 2008 poetry slam, Kuumba Lynx is an arts-in-education, not-for-profit organization working to provide access to cross-cultural and interdisciplinary arts while building community.  Kuumba Lynx performances strive to meet the ISP goals for Fine Arts and Social Sciences.

 

Title:                            Kuumba Lynx: Educatin' Energy

Location:                     Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre

Dates:                          Thursday, May 22, 2008

Curtain Times:             7:30 p.m. (10:30 a.m. student matinee*)

Ticket price:                 $20 ($8.50 student matinee*)

Audience Services:      1650 N. Halsted, 312-335-1650

                                    Online ticketing available at www.steppenwolf.org

 

*Tickets for the student matinee performance of Kuumba Lynx must be booked through Steppenwolf's Education Coordinator – call 312-654-5639 to schedule a field trip.

"Traffic continues Steppenwolf's season-long conversation about what it means to be an American – this time with a decidedly made-in-Chicago focus.  Traffic provides a vibrant platform for dialogue between our multi-generational audience and an eclectic pool of artists," comments Director of the Traffic Arts Series, Sylvia Ewing.  "Traffic provides the opportunity for Steppenwolf to be a place where people come together for an experience that bridges entertainment and discovery, the familiar and the unknown."

Steppenwolf's Traffic Series brings together artists of all disciplines and casts them as storytellers in one night only presentations on the Steppenwolf stage. Traffic provides an intimate and unique intersection of language, lyrics, poetry and music, creating a fresh perspective on expressing the American story.

 
Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ, 91.5 FM) is planning to re-broadcast the one-night only Traffic events as part of its partnership with Steppenwolf.
 
 
Committed to the principle of ensemble performance through the collaboration of a company of actors, directors and playwrights, Steppenwolf Theatre Company's mission is to advance the vitality and diversity of American theater by nurturing artists, encouraging repeatable creative relationships and contributing new works to the national canon.  The company, formed in 1976 by a collective of actors, is dedicated to perpetuating an ethic of mutual respect and the development of artists through on-going group work.  Steppenwolf has grown into an internationally renowned company of forty-one artists whose talents include acting, directing, playwriting, filmmaking and textual adaptation.

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