Lumberyard Contemporary Performing Arts Kicks Off Its Inaugural Summer Season
By: Stephi Wild Jun. 19, 2018
LUMBERYARD Contemporary Performing Arts kicks off its inaugural summer season June 29th. The "Under Construction Summer Festival" will feature 8 performances and 3 premieres across 4 venues throughout the Hudson Valley while construction is being completed on its facility in Catskill.
The season will open with SCAT!, a premiere from Urban Bush Women, which has "interpreted the black experience with passion and focus for thirty years" (The Village Voice). Set in a fictional jazz club with a five-piece band and two vocalists, Scat! tells the story of the Zollar family during the Great Migration. LUMBERYARD presents the work-its third collaboration with Urban Bush Women-from June 29-July 1 at the Hudson, New York, Club Helsinki.
Upcoming performances include:
- June 29-July 1: Urban Bush Women's SCAT! at Club Helsinki
- July 6-8: STREB Extreme Action Company's SEA (Singular Extreme Actions) at LUMBERYARD
- July 13-14: Bridgman | Packer Dance's TRUCK at LUMBERYARD
- July 27-29: d. Sabela grimes' newest work at Bridge Street Theatre
- Aug. 3-5: Jodi Melnick's One of Sixty-Five Thousand Gestures/NEW BODIES at Hudson Hall
- Aug. 17-19: John Jasperse's Freedom at Hudson Hall
- Aug. 24-26: Ishmael Houston-Jones' Variations on Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and Other Works by John Bernd at Hudson Hall
- Aug. 31-Sept. 1: Tony-Award Winner Savion Glover and Marcus Gilmore at LUMBERYARD
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