David Szlasa News

Choreographer, director and Bay Area performance innovator Joanna Haigood will explore issues of race and identity in the world premiere of her new performance installation, Between me and the other world, Friday through Sunday, November 1 through 3 from 1 to 5 pm at Zaccho Studio, 1777 Yosemite Avenue, Studio 330, in San Francisco. A dynamic exploration of scholar and civil rights leader W.E.B. DuBois' concept of "double consciousness", the performance installation has been created in collaboration with composer Anthony Brown, media artist David Szlasa, scenic designer Sean Riley and performing artists Jetta Martin, Raissa Simpson, Rashidi Omari and Matthew Wickett, who together have created an immersive environment that evokes the identity duality experienced by many people of color. For more information, visitwww.zaccho.org.

California Shakespeare Theater and Intersection for the Arts today announced the Triangle Lab's selections for its Artist-Investigator project, a series of ten experiments to develop new models of theater making. The Artist-Investigator project seeks to support artists from a variety of disciplines-theater, dance, performance and visual art, multidisciplinary artists, and those exploring social practice-who are curious to invent, discover, or refine a particular way of working.

REDCAT, CalArts' downtown center for contemporary arts, presents the Los Angeles premiere of Alpert Award-winning hip-hop theater artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph and visual artist Theaster Gates' acclaimed collaboration red, black & GREEN: a blues (rbGb), a visceral and moving hybrid performance that merges incisive writing and urgent choreography to confront issues of race, class, culture and the environment. The four-performance run of rbGb will be presented at the Roy and Edna Disney/ CalArts Theater, Thursday, January 31 through Sunday, February 3, 2013.

A multi-disciplinary performance piece created by Marc Bamuthi Joseph provokes audiences to re-envision the green movement and what it means to live green by considering critical social and environmental factors. red, black & GREEN: a blues (rbGb), part of The Living Word Project, take place today May 30 - Jun 2 at the Intiman Playhouse as part of The Next Fifty in partnership with Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas and Seattle Art Museum.

A multi-disciplinary performance piece created by Marc Bamuthi Joseph provokes audiences to re-envision the green movement and what it means to live green by considering critical social and environmental factors. red, black & GREEN: a blues (rbGb), part of The Living Word Project, take place May 30 - Jun 2 at the Intiman Playhouse as part of The Next Fifty in partnership with Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas and Seattle Art Museum.

Tickets go on sale today for red, black & GREEN: a blues (rbGb), a multi-disciplinary performance piece created by Marc Bamuthi Joseph as part of The Living Word Project. The performances take place May 30 - Jun 2 at the Intiman Playhouse as part of The Next Fifty in partnership with Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas and Seattle Art Museum.

ACT Artistic Director Kurt Beattie announces six Mainstage plays (one TBA) for ACT ? A Contemporary Theatre's 2009 Season, to start April 10, 2009.

A Contemporary Theatre announces adjustments and additions to its 45th Anniversary Season. Rounding out the six-play Mainstage season is the corporate comedy Below the Belt (May 22-June 21, previously listed as TBA), starring acclaimed film and television actor Judd Hirsch. In addition, subscribers to ACT receive special entr?e to discounted tickets to the Broadway smash hit, August: Osage County, on tour at The Paramount October 27-November 1.

ACT Artistic Director Kurt Beattie announces six Mainstage plays (one TBA) for ACT - A Contemporary Theatre's 2009 Season, to start April 10, 2009.