Hip Hop Dance Sensations Rennie Harris Puremovement in Facing Mekka
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Lam Research Theater (700 Howard St. San Francisco, CA 94103)
- Full Price:
- $45.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $22.50*
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The last date listed for Facing Mekka was Friday February 4, 2005 / 8:00pm.
Currently at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Lam Research Theater:
La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast) -- Film Screening & Live Performance
- Full Price:
- $50.00
- Our Price:
- $25.00
San Francisco Performances celebrates the 75th birthday of American composer Philip Glass with a screening of Jean Cocteau's film La Belle et la Bête, alongside a live performance of the opera score Glass composed in 1994 to accompany the film. La Belle et la Bête premiered in 1946, stunning audiences with a visual style that was unlike any they had ever seen before. Melding classical traditions with the avant-garde, Cocteau revolutionized filmmaking, inspiring future generations of directors to this day. As an homage to Cocteau's groundbreaking work as well as the composers associated with Cocteau's films, Glass created the "Cocteau Trilogy" of operas, which could serve as alternate scores to the films La Belle et la Bête, Orphee and Les Enfants Terribles. This live performance by the Philip Glass Ensemble allows you to experience Glass' score as you watch the film on the big screen. Learn More
1 Goldstar Member Review
R.F.
Written on Feb 07 2005An amazing performance using the hip hop dance vocabulary to create a unique and artistic multimedia experience. Everyone invloved in the project is incredibly talented: the choreographer, the dancers, the musicians, the sound and visual technicians. Following the show, the audience was invited to stay for a Q&A discussion with Rennie Harris. Valuable insight into the mind of this culturally significant artist!
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Description
Hip hop street dance explodes onto the stage, as Rennie Harris Puremovement brings its provocative and controversial new work to YBCA for the first time. In Facing Mekka, YBCA Wattis Artist-in-Residence Harris leads us away from the usual secularity of hip hop to an engagement with deeper spiritual questions, presenting an alternative and compassionate vision of a troubled world and the means to heal if we will take it. At times disturbing, often joyful and always provocative, Harris is both the master and the innovator of this most vital of contemporary art forms.