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HIP HOP GENERATION NEXT

A Block Party

June 14, 2008, 1-7 PM

Coffey Park, Red Hook, Brooklyn

Free!

Dancing in the Streets is throwing a free party in Red Hook that celebrates the community roots of hip hop as a creative and constructive catalyst for joyous artistic expression.  Dance performances tracing hip hop's evolution from its African roots to newly emerging forms are the highlight of the six-hour event, including performances by Kotchegna Dance Company; the Chicago-based Footworkingz; Full Circle Productions, Artistic Directors, Gabriel “Kwikstep” Dionesio and Ana “Rokafella” Garcia; Philadelphia-based Illstyle & Peace Productions hip hop company, Artistic Director, Brandon Albright; New York City’s KR3TS; and two works that are being commissioned for the block party by Thomas DeFrantz and Fetecua-Soto.

The block party will engage audiences of all ages with the four hip hop elements—DJing, rhyming/emceeing, graffiti, and especially, breaking/dancing. In addition to the featured performances, the event will include dance and spoken word performed by Brooklyn youth, ciphers (freestyle dance circles), dance battles, open mic, visual art workshops, and a jam session.

HIP HOP GENERATION NEXT, was developed by its Artistic Director, Brandon Albright, and is being produced in collaboration with City Parks Foundation’s Hook Productions, Good Shepherd/The Beacon, Partnerships for Parks, PS/MS 27, Red Hook Initiative, Red Hook Public Safety Corps, and the Urban Assembly High School of Music and Art.

Program subject to change.

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