Teo Castellanos Comes To Bristol Riverside Theatre 4/8

Bristol Riverside Theatre continues its BRIDGES program with an Informance by Teo Castellanos on April 8 at 8:00 PM. This one-night only appearance, titled Fat Boy, is a dance theatre piece about world hunger and American consumerism. Fat Boy takes the audience on a journey through rice cultivation rituals, surreal characters, Zen ritual movements, Jamaican DJs and breakdancing. Through rhythm, dance and visual imagery, Castellanos mixes cultural influences to question assumptions about American values. BRIDGES, a series of artist residences that bridge the artist-audience relationship, presents works of leading American artists on the edge of new forms.
Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for students ages 19-24, and $5 for children ages 18 and younger. Tickets are available by visiting brtstage.org or calling the BRT Box Office at 215-785-0100. Bristol Riverside Theatre is located at 120 Radcliffe Street in Bristol, PA.

Actor/writer/director Teo Castellanos is founder and artistic director of Teo Castellanos D-Projects, a contemporary dance/theater company, whose original work fuses world cultures, religion and music, examining social issues through performance. D-Projects has toured the United States, South America and China. He is author of War, Revolution, and the Projects a one man trilogy, and the one-man show NE 2nd Avenue which won the prestigious Fringe First Award at the 2003 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The recipient of the 2005 State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, he has been nominated for a South Florida Carbonell Award, an Alpert Award and twice for a US Artist Award. For five years, he directed a theater company of youth/young adults that toured original work to jails, detention centers, residential substance abuse treatment programs and community centers carrying a message focused on H.I.V. prevention.

The Informance is part of a PNC Bank Arts Alive grant, which includes a residency for students on April 23-29 and a Poetry Slam on June 3.

Since 1986, BRT has brought consistently acclaimed professional theatre to Bucks County and maintained a long-term commitment to finding and developing new plays. The theatre is the recipient of over 60 Barrymore Award nominations for Excellence in Theatre, given annually by the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia. In addition to its mainstage productions, the theatre serves as a cultural hub for the community, with such programs as children's theatre, community concerts and exhibitions of local visual arts. Currently under the direction of Artistic Director Keith Baker, Founding Director Susan D. Atkinson, and Managing Director, Amy Kaissar, BRT is in its 24th season. For information, visit www.brtstage.org.