Free Outdoor Performances Rennie Harris Puremovement Students of the Asphalt Jungle Co-Presented by Dancing in the Streets and Friends of Coffey Park Program I Friday, September 19, 2003 6 P.M. History of Hip-Hop Performance/Q&A P.S. 27 Auditorium, 27 Huntington Street, between Columbia & Hicks St., Red Hook, Brooklyn Program II Saturday & Sunday, September 20 & 21, 2003 2 P.M. Students of the Asphalt Jungle, Company Performance Coffey Park, Dwight Street between Verona St. & Visitation Pl., Red Hook, Brooklyn. (In case of rain, performance will take place at P.S. 15 auditorium, 71 Sullivan Street between Van Brunt & Richards St., Red Hook, Brooklyn) Rennie Harris Puremovement has dazzled audiences worldwide with its feats of virtuosic dancing, exhilarating energy, and breathtaking athleticism. The outdoor performances on Saturday and Sunday will feature Students of the Asphalt Jungle: selections from the company’s repertoire, including P-Funk, March of the Antmen, Continuum, and the title work, Students of the Asphalt Jungle. These works celebrate the vitality and cultural significance of hip-hop—a contemporary indigenous art form that emerged on the streets of neighborhoods similar to Brooklyn’s Red Hook. Harris, who has become an international spokesperson for hip-hop, learned the genre as a child on the streets of North Philadelphia where he grew up. He founded the Rennie Harris Puremovement company in 1992 with the goals of bringing hip-hop to the concert stage and of preserving and disseminating hip-hop culture through performances, workshops, symposia, and festivals. True to its mission, the company’s interactive performance on Friday evening will show the progression of hip-hop’s forms such as breaking, locking, popping, house, and stepping as they developed in different inner city communities throughout the United States, and trace hip-hop’s historical roots to African, Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, and Puerto Rican cultures. Friends of Coffey Park is a neighborhood organization that is working with City Parks Foundation’s Partnership with Parks program on refurbishing the park and bringing public programs to it. It is comprised of Red Hook community leaders and residents who have a longstanding partnership with Dancing in the Streets through Dancing’s 11-year Red Hook initiative. The initiative has consisted of an arts education program in Red Hook’s public schools, youth festivals, and original site-specific productions. The Rennie Harris Puremovement engagement is supported in part by Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. Call Dancing in the Streets at 212.625.3505 for rain delays and other information. Directions Directions via public transportation A, C, F, 2, 3, 4, 5 Train to Jay Street/Borough Hall or M, N, R Train to Court St. in Brooklyn. Transfer to B61 Bus at Jay & Livingston Sts. Get off at Verona and Van Brunt Sts. To Coffey Park (Verona btw. Richards & Dwight Sts): From bus stop, walk East on Verona Street one block to Coffey Park on your right. To PS 27 (27 Huntington btw. Columbia & Hicks): From bus stop, walk East on Verona Street past Coffey Park on your right. Continue on Verona to "t" with Columbia Street. Take quick left & quick right to Huntington St. Entrance to PS 27 is at the end of the block on the left. To PS 15 for rain location (71 Sullivan btw. Richards & Van Brunt Sts): From bus stop, walk East on Verona one block to Richards Street, turn right. Continue to Sullivan, PS 15 is on right. Directions by car from Brooklyn Bridge to Coffey Park: Stay right across bridge. Take BQE/278 Exit. Bear right off exit ramp. At the fork - bear left and follow signs for 278/BQE West (Brooklyn Queens Expressway West). Take left onto BQE West. Take the first exit at "Atlantic Avenue". Take left onto Columbia St. Take right onto DeGraw St. which turns into Van Brunt St. Continue on Van Brunt. Take a left onto Verona St. Coffey Park is on right on the next block between Richards & Dwight Sts. BACK TO TOP home I overview I season I initiatives I opportunities I press room I contact us Copyright © 2006 Dancing in the Streets. All rights reserved. Website by Russell Design		2003 Season: Offering (reconceived) – June18-22 Live performance installation by Eiko and Koma Co-presented with Danspace Project Shadow Casters New York – July 9-25 Developmental Workshop Dancing on the Plaza – August 30, September 10 & 17 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza at East 47th Street Dancing in the Parks – September 19, 20, 21 Coffey Park, Red Hook, Brooklyn