Current Season > Performing Arts

RESURRECTION
Written and Performed
by Daniel Beaty
Directed by Oz Scott

September 12 -13, 2008
8pm and Broadway Performance Hall
1625 Broadway; Seattle, WA (map)

CD Forum Session! A post performance Q & A free to ticket holders Sept. 12th and 13th.

"Daniel Beaty is a new voice in American theatre celebrated as “compassionate and precise.”
- The New York Times

Daniel Beaty, the 2007 Obie Award Winner for Outstanding Writing and Performance for Emergence-SEE!, is back in Seattle with his powerful new work: RESURRECTION. Featuring Daniel’s unique blend of music, poetry, comedy and drama, RESURRECTION follows six interconnected men, ages 10 through 60—a child scientist, a young man from the projects preparing for college, an ex-convict, an executive, and a Bishop of a mega-church—through an evening that changes their lives forever.  The stories of these African American men collide one evening in an unforgettable look at identity, relationships and, above all, our human connections.

Tickets: $20/$15 for CD Forum members/students/seniors
Order online at www.BrownPaperTickets.com or call 1-800-838-3006.

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MySpace
Video Clip (coming soon)
Raves

Media sponsor KUOW 94.9 Public Radio

A Staged Reading of Experts of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Speeches
Arranged and Directed
by Gin Hammond
Part of the Seattle Center’s Annual Martin Luther King Jr. People’s Celebration

Monday, January 19, 2009, Time- TBD
The Center House Pavilion/Seattle Center; Seattle, WA (map)

From I Have a Dream to Beyond Vietnam, Martin Luther King Jr.’s words are revolutionary in the face of opposition. Dr. King’s speeches are powerful, inspiring and controversial and spanned issues from civil and global human rights to nuclear proliferation. Join the CD Forum and the Seattle Center as we celebrate the power and depth of those words in honor of Dr. King’s birthday.

This event is free and open to the public.

Guillermo E. Brown and BiLLLL$
Shuffle Mode

Friday and Saturday, January 30-31, 2009
8pm at Broadway Performance Hall
1625 Broadway; Seattle, WA (map)

CD Forum Session! A post performance Q & A free to ticket holders
January 30th & 31st.

“Shuffle Mode" is pure Guillermo E. Brown, a masterful performing artist who is called a “musical omnivore." all about jazz.

Imagine an artist forcing all his sonic possibilities into an hour-long spectacle of music and video.  Guillermo E. Brown’s Shuffle Mode—an experimental, beat-based, electronic, jazzy, soulful, label-free, multimedia work tracing one man’s pathway to music through a diversity of influences is that. Like a broken iPod, Shuffle Mode is intentionally glitchy, providing no clear-cut answers but erasing, through its very existence, false boundaries, jumping erratically between genres and conjuring the very spirit of modern music. Brown uses live instrumentation, backed by electronic arrangements and video.

Tickets: $20/$15 for CD Forum members/students/seniors
Order online at www.BrownPaperTickets.com or call 1-800-838-3006.

Want more? Click links below!
MySpace
Video Clip
Raves

Media Sponsor KUOW 94.9 Public Radio

Image of Guillermo E. Brown courtesy of Davis Thompson-Moss

Dance Split Bill with Camille A. Brown and Makeda Thomas

Friday and Saturday, May 15-16, 2009
8pm at Broadway Performance Hall
1625 Broadway; Seattle, WA (map)

CD Forum Session! A post performance Q & A free to ticket holders May 15th & 16th.

Dance split bill featuring work by Camille A. Brown and the US Premiere of Makeda Thomas’ new solo work FreshWater, co-commissioned by the CD Forum.

Camille A. Brown’s choreography is a “tour de force” and “reveals” an arresting individuality as both choreographer and performer.  Her work focuses on combining elements of both contemporary and West African movement to dialogue about issues pertaining to the human spirit and its often deep, enlightening, and even humorous journey through life. Ms. Brown has received commissions from Hubbard Street II, Urban Bush Women, Ailey II, among others. She received the Princess Grass Award in Choreography, a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, and the Presidential Scholar in the Arts Award in Dance.

Makeda Thomas choreographs works that cross boundaries between contemporary modern and traditional dance.  Fresh Water takes its title from the Trinidadian term for someone who talks, dresses or acts American without having gone overseas (crossing salt water). The term also serves to remind someone who may have indeed gone overseas that they are still Caribbean. Created in the midst of returning home to Trinidad after 20 years living abroad, it is a deeply personal work.

Tickets: $20/$15 for CD Forum members/students/seniors
Order online at www.BrownPaperTickets.com or call 1-800-838-3006.

Want more? Click links below!
Camille’s MySpace
Makeda’s Website
Camille's Raves
Makeda's Raves

Image of Camille A. Brown courtesy of Matt Karas

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