10th New York City Hip-Hop Theater Festival
2v2 Battle / Jam $2,000 Prize
Sept 29, 2010
Presented in partnership with Grand Street Settlement & Featuring special guest judge Ken Swift, Double Trouble is a 2-on-2 B-boy/Bgirl battle inspired by the legendary “Kenny-Flow” routine. It was a moment that forever changed the game.
Photos & Video by Michael Premo
TEN YEARS OF CULTURE IN ACTION
TENTH NYC HIP HOP THEATER FESTIVAL
September 25 –October 16, 2010
Join us to celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of the NYC Hip Hop Theater Festival. This year, the festival runs from September 25 – October 16, and we’re excited to unveil a number of firsts for the Festival. Along with the vibrant collection of performances you’ve come to expect, we are presenting our first ever visual art commission and two premieres with two of New York’s leading arts organizations, the Dance Theater Workshop and HarlemStage.
For ten years, the Hip Hop Theater Festival has consistently broken new ground, elevating both Hip Hop and Theater by empowering artists to develop bold new works, while creating a lasting and positive impact on urban communities. Join HHTF as we celebrate our Tenth Anniversary of Culture in Action.
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Download the HHTF 2010 Press Release
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Presented in partnership with Grand Street Settlement & Featuring special guest judge Ken Swift Double Trouble is a 2-on-2 B-boy/Bgirl battle inspired by the legendary “Kenny-Flow” routine. It was a moment that forever changed the game. This family friendly, all ages event culminates with the battle for the grand prize. Got skills? Come and get it
Date: 09.25 | One Show Only
Time: 1p – 7p
Venue: Grand Street Settlement
80 Pitt St at Rivington, LES
Price: FREE to watch | $10 to battle
Swift Solos is an evening-length series of vignettes based on the choreographic legacy of seminal urban dance innovator Ken Swift. This collection of solo and ensemble offerings celebrates Ken Swift’s body of work, from B-boy battles to the concert stage. Pivotal to the globalization of “breakdancing” or “breakin”, Swift’s work as a master dancer spans over 25 years, crossing borders of race, age, culture, and nationality.
Dates: 09.29 – 10.02
Time: 7:30p
Pre-show: 09.29 | 6:30p
Coffee & Conversation w/ MARE 139
Post-Show 10.01
Discussion: w/ Clyde Valentin
Venue: Dance Theater Workshop
Price: $20 | 
Urban Word NYC’s Annual Mentor, Teacher, Educator & Community Activist Training Urban Word NYC, Hip-Hop Theater Festival, the Center for Multicultural Education and Programs at NYU, and Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development present the 2010 Preemptive Education Conference, featuring a dynamic weekend training series that engages the best practices in spoken word, hip-hop, urban arts, and social justice education. Preemptive Education aims to examine critical issues that affect today’s youth, while providing creative and practical resources to address them. Participants will learn best practices in studentcentered and critical pedagogy from professionals in key fields of education, youth development, and spoken word & hip-hop and will provide comprehensive opportunities for educators of all levels.
Dates: 10.01 – 10.03 | Three Shows
Venue: New York University
Price & Info: Full schedule and information at urbanwordnyc.org or call 212.352.3495
Featuring Toni Blackman, Kris Diaz, Candido Tirado, Craig “muMs” Grant, reg e. gaines, Dominique Morrisseau, Ira Kip, Steve Sapp, Malik Yoba, Caridad “La Bruja” De La Luz, Paola Mendoza, Kelly Tsai, Nilaja Sun, and MANY more. Full Line Up Below.
Join us for what promises to be an evening of joy and laughter as HHTF brings together its extended Festival family from the last ten years to produce, write, direct and perform in a series of short plays produced in under 48 hours. A special one-night marathon event of bomb performances is not to be missed! Cant Stop Wont Stop is part reunion meets theater meets hip-hop, an evening of pure celebratory bliss.
Date: 10.04 |One Show Only
Times: 7:30p
Venue: Cherry Pit Theater
155 Bank Street
New York, NY 10014
Dates: 10.05 – 10.09 | Five Days Only
Click Here to Download an Exclusive Article on Mare139 by Jacob Kimvall
Mare139 is a native New Yorker who began his art career by painting graffiti on trains in 1976. In 1985 he revolutionized the art form by creating a novel sculpture idiom. The first ever visual art commission for HHTF, Freestyle Archityper 2 embodies Mare 139’s vision for a series of ‘sculptural interventions’ in public & private spaces to incite community dialog about contemporary urban art and its affect on our landscape.
Opening: 10.05 | 7:30p – 10:30p
Venue: Raw Space Gallery
148 11th Ave. (btw. 21st & 22nd)
NY, NY 10011
Price: FREE to the Public
RSVP Required for the Opening
“Pioneers are the first to see it and the last to be seen.” – Mare139
Join Mare139 in a walk around the Raw Space Gallery as he discusses his process and narrative as a sculptor. Mare will also share a series of slides spanning two decades of his sculptural work. Structured as an informal conversation, this is a unique opportunity for the general public to engage in dialogue with one of Hip-Hop’s true pioneers.
Meet the Artist: 10.09 | 3p – 5p
Venue: Raw Space Gallery
148 11th Ave. (btw. 21st & 22nd)
NY, NY 10011
Price: FREE to the Public
HHTF turns over the stage to the outstanding performance works emerging from some of New York City High School students. Featuring members of Urban Word and the Teatro El Puente, this one-of-a-kind night is always high energy and sold out. It features the unfiltered voices and perspectives from young artists today.
Date: 10.06 | One Show Only
Time: 7:30p
Venue: Cherry Pit Theater
Price: $10 | BUY TICKETS
Cooking is an art and just as good for you. Renowned eco-chef and critically acclaimed author Bryant Terry fuses song, poetry, lecture and practical demonstration to explore the origins of Soul Food, a cuisine popularly characterized as anything but healthy. Terry reveals the plant based history of African-American food, while sharing his personal path to self-empowerment through informed food choices. By tracing the cultural roots of popular cuisines and eating habits he illuminates the intersections of poverty, structural racism, and food insecurity.
Dates: 10.07 | One Show Only
Time: 5p – 7p
Venue: The Brecht Forum
Price: free to the Public
Book signing to follow the session!
Hip-Hop Humanities Series is supported in part by the New York Council for the Humanities
A “thoughtful, provocative, and insanely funny” one woman show written and performed by the “multitalented” Micia Mosely. Portraying multiple drastically different characters representing the diversity of Black lesbian experiences, Micia challenges the notion that there is only one way to be Black or queer in the 21st century. A phenomenal one hour performance steeped in improve and audience participation that has thrilled audiences across the country.
Written & Performed by Micia Mosely, Directed by Tamilla Woodard, Produced by Shalonda Ingram. A Nursha Project™ Production.
Dates: 10.07 – 10.08|Two Shows
Time: 7:30p
Venue: Cherry Pit Theater
Price: $20 | BUY TICKETS
In Radha Blank’s SEED a social worker confronts those who have struggled to survive the crack epidemic and the child welfare and penal systems. In this panel come hear child advocates, social workers and survivors of the system(s) discuss the system(s) and how they transformed their experiences into platforms to address the current state of child welfare today.
Date: 10.08
Time: 5p – 7p
Venue: The Brecht Forum
Price: FREE to the Public
Hip-Hop Humanities Series is supported in part by the New York Council for the Humanities
Join Mare139 in a walk around the Raw Space Gallery as he discusses his process and narrative as a sculptor. Mare will also share a series of slides spanning two decades of his sculptural work. Structured as an informal conversation, this is a unique opportunity for the general public to engage in dialogue with one of Hip-Hop’s true pioneers.
Dates: 10.05 – 10.09 | Five Shows
Opening: 10.05 | 7:30p – 10:30p
Meet the Artist: 10.09 | 3p – 5p
Venue: Raw Space Gallery
Price: FREE to the Public
RSVP Required for the Opening
Presented in association with Classical Theatre of Harlem
Burnt-out social worker Anne Colleen Simpson decides to write a book detailing the child welfare case that brought her acclaim. But when Chee-Chee, a gifted ten-year-old from the “projects” collides into her life, she is forced to confront the shadows of her past. This compelling drama, originally workshopped by the Classical Theatre of Harlem, examines the class and cultural fault lines in one of New York’s most prominent black communities.
Dates: 10.11 – 10.13 | Three Shows
Time: 7:30p
Venue: Cherry Pit Theater
Price:$20 | BUY TICKETS
Pop Multi-talented bass player and producer B. Satz brings his wideranging influence in the NYC music community to the Joe’s Pub stage for what promises to be a thumping soul throw-down. From Sierra Leone to Milwaukee, from Ghana to ATL, and from Brooklyn to The Bay, B.Satz regularly collaborates with a global family of artists, uniting his diverse musical endeavors onto a single stage, on a single night.
Date: 10.12 | One Show Only
Time: 9:30p
Venue: Joe’s Pub
Price: $20 | BUY TICKETS
Tonight HHTF bridges the gap between its two most important Festival cities. New York and our Nation’s capital, Washington, DC. HHTF invited some dear DC friends and collaborators for a trip up the I-95 to share a sound guaranteed to rock the house at Joe’s Pub. Experience the fusion vibe of Mambo Sauce, one of the Capital Region’s hottest Go-Go bands. Joining Mambo Sauce is Tabi Bonney and a host of artists on a mission to make bodies shake in NYC.
Date: 10.13 | One Show Only
Time: 9:30p
Venue: Joe’s Pub
Price: $20 | BUY TICKETS
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