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Perishable Theatre, Rhode Island's Research and Development Theatre, presents Scratch & Burn, a powerful hip-hop dance theatre performance about our primal urge to battle for supremacy and domination-begging the question "When is war not the answer?".
Written and directed by founder and Artistic Director Teo Castellanos, with choreography by the company and break-dance legend Ricardo 'Speedy Legs' Fernandez, and performed to live, original music by Brimstone 127, Scratch & Burn transforms the language of popular street dance into a theatrical contemporary dance masterpiece.
Scratch & Burn is a combination of dance elements from ancient Zulu, Maori, and butoh rituals with movements from hip-hop and urban street combat to create a powerful, gripping and immensely entertaining dance theater work about our primal urge to battle for supremacy and domination.
With live African drumming, a megaton soundtrack and dramatic effects with lighting, props, costumes and video projection, five male dancers assume various roles and rarely leave the stage, concluding the show with a display of break dancing that leaves the audience gasping.
Scratch & Burn is fast and furious, forceful and athletic, delivering a searing critique of war, violence, racial stereotypes, the Bush administration and U.S. imperialism.
Call it hip-hop dance theater. Call it contemporary performance. Call it five guys getting their antiwar freak on. Call it whatever you like so long as you go see Scratch & Burn. Miami Herald
Teo Castellanos' gripping and immensely entertaining dance theater work is overwhelming…as impressive as any [show] produced here this season. Miami New Times
...keeps you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end. Urban America Newspaper
Please note that this performance will be held at Rhode Island College's Robert's Hall NOT at Perishable Theatre.
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Scratch & Burn
Auditorium
Roberts Hall
Rhode Island College
600 Mt Pleasant Ave
Providence RI 02908-1991
Time: 8pm
Price: $15 general admission, $12 students/seniors/military, $10 for Perishable members
Tickets: Available through ArtTix online at www.arttixri.com or at 401-621-6123
Perishable Theatre Website: http://www.perishable.org
Please note
This performance will be held at Rhode Island College's Robert's Hall NOT at Perishable Theatre.
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