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Her concert will be February 10, 2012. 8:00 pm at La Peña

Check out the teaser for Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s Word Becomes Flesh performance soon happening at La Pena!

Word Becomes Flesh is a fluid evening-length choreopoem written in the form of a narrative verse play. Presented as a series of performed letters to an unborn son, the piece uses poetry, dance and live music to document nine months of pregnancy from a young single father’s perspective. These performed letters incorporate elements of ritual, archetypes, and symbolic sites within the constructs of hip hop culture.

Buy your tickets in advance!

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/219426

Learn more about the event:

https://lapena.org/event/2006

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Word Becomes Flesh from UTRFestival on Vimeo.

 

 

“Stereotype-defying piece”  Ed Malin for the NYTheater.com

“Wow! Just wow. That’s a pretty mundane comment, but I’m literally speechless over Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s Word Becomes Flesh.” Michael Pulliam for the Maui News.

Erik Piepenburg has 5 Questions to Marc Bamuthi Joseph about the “Word Becomes Flesh” in the New York Times Arts Beat, The Culture at Large. Here is the link.

“What we witnessed was enlightening, entertaining and quite moving.” Tiffany Bacon from RNBPhilly.com

““Word Becomes Flesh” pushes hot button issues in the African American community”   Celia Ipiotis from Eye on Dance.

La Peña would like to thank our sponsors that made this event possible: National Performance Network (NPN) Re-Creation Fund Project, the James Irvine Foundation and the Clorox Foundation. Additionally we would like to recognize our partners efforts: Painted Bride (Philadelphia, PA), Dance Place (Washington, DC), Youth Speaks (San Francisco, CA).

photo credit: J.Osato