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7 Stages Theatre
1105 Euclid Ave.
Atlanta, GA 30307
404-523-7647 (box office)
404-522-0911 (administration)
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7 Stages & Cultural Odyssey presents:
The Love Project
Pearl Cleage, Zaron Burnett, Rhodessa Jones & Idris Ackamoor
Directed by Harriet Schiffer-Scott
02/26/2009 - 03/08/2009
PERFORMANCE TIMES
Thurs. 2/26 at 8pm (Opening Night)
Fri. 2/27 at 8pm
Sat. 2/28 at 2pm
Sat. 2/28 at 8pm (with Talkback)
Sun. 3/1 at 5pm (Cancelled due to snow)
Thurs. 3/5 at 10am and 8pm (with Talkback)
Fri. 3/6 at 8pm
Sat. 3/7 at 8pm
Sun. 3/8 at 5pm
MASTER CLASS:
"Creating New Performances"
Saturday, March 7
10am - 1pm
Pay What You Can - suggested minimum $15, valued at $50
To reserve your space or for more info, call 404-522-8602
TICKET PRICING
$20 Opening Night and Saturdays
$15 All other nights
$5 off: Students, Seniors, Artists, Educators, and Military
GROUP DISCOUNTS (parties of 10 or more)
$12.50 Saturday nights and regular groups
$8 Groups of Students, Seniors, Artists, Educators, and Military
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ABOUT THE PLAY
"You don’t start a love story. One day you look around, and it’s started all around you.” With song, dance and storytelling, internationally acclaimed artists Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor detail the love story they’ve found themselves living after decades on the road. Partnerships, politics, history, family, and food – whatever your favorite lovesong, you can sing along in this show.
Master Class:
"Creating New Performances"
Saturday, March 7
10am - 1pm
Pay What You Can - suggested minimum $15, valued at $50
To reserve your space or for more info, call 404-522-8602
“Creating New Performance” is a theater workshop for professional, aspiring and closet performers. The class is an introduction to the performance style and training processes of Cultural Odyssey’s Co-Artistic Directors, Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor. The workshop will utilize sound and movement exercises as the beginning of a creative exploration that includes theater games, memory exercises, autobiographical musings, storytelling and musical rhythm changes. At the end of the workshop participants will perform a five to ten minute mini-performance created during the process. In addition, participants will receive information regarding “personal survival strategies for performing artists”. |
The press LOVES The LOVE Project
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More about Cultural Odyssey and THE MEDEA PROJECT: THEATER FOR INCARCERATED WOMEN
Cultural Odyssey was founded by Idris Ackamoor, Executive Director, in 1979 and joined by Rhodessa Jones, Co-Artistic Director, in 1983. Together they have developed over a dozen original productions that demonstrate their vision of "ARTS AS SOCIAL ACTIVISM". The Medea Project is a production of Cultural Odyssey, which continues to develop original productions that demonstrate their vision. In 1989, on the basis of material developed while conducting classes at the San Francisco County Jail, Rhodessa Jones created "Big Butt Girls, Hard Headed Women", a performance piece based on the lives of the incarcerated women she encountered. During the work's creation, Jones and jail officials were made aware of issues that were specific to female inmates, such as guilt, depression, and self-loathing, which arose in response to feelings of failure in the face of community. These issues directly contribute to recidivism among female offenders. Based on this observation, Jones founded THE MEDEA PROJECT: THEATER FOR INCARCERATED WOMEN to explore whether an arts-based approach could help reduce the numbers of women returning to jail.
Pics from the stage of The LOVE Project:
WORKSHOPS, LECTURES AND RESIDENCIES
Cultural Odyssey provides a wide variety of residency programs and seminars that are flexible in length, price and age of participants. Each can be geared to the sponsor's specific requirements, from an entertaining format for children to a challenging format for the most demanding of university scholars.
“Creating New Performance”
(Master Class with Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor)
“Creating New Performance” is a theater workshop for professional, aspiring and closet performers. The class is an introduction to the performance style and training processes of Cultural Odyssey’s Co-Artistic Directors, Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor. The workshop will utilize sound and movement exercises as the beginning of a creative exploration that includes theater games, memory exercises, autobiographical musings, storytelling and musical rhythm changes. At the end of the workshop participants will perform a five to ten minute mini-performance created during the process. In addition, participants will receive information regarding “personal survival strategies for performing artists”.
“Dismembered Heart: A Theater Workshop for Women”
(90 minutes)
The workshop will utilize movement, text and text writing, vocalization and dream-gazing inside a safe environment. The workshop hopes to encourage open and exploratory dialogue about issues concerned with women, race and empowerment.
“African American Performance at the Turn of the Century”
(Lecture/Demonstration with Idris Ackamoor, 60 minutes)
Using video and performance excerpts, this lecture introduces students to the various components and trends in African-American performance art. Idris Ackamoor investigates the elements of African American performance traditions and demonstrates the many ways they have been revised, borrowed and reintegrated by contemporary artists to produce new, visionary work.
To book these or for more information, call Heidi Howard directly at 404-522-0236
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