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Makoto Hirano - Boom Bap Tourism
Award-winning choreographer and rhyme-poet Makoto Hirano takes his thoughtful and humorous performance style and collides it with gritty urban/B-Boy aesthetics, direct address story-telling, and meticulously crafted Scenic and Sound design in his autobiographical solo performance about trying to keep it "real" while trying to keep the show going.
Hirano, a Japanese-American, former-gangbanger-street dancer-turned-U.S. Marine, performs a unique, multi-linear narrative that weaves in and out of past and present and channels some influential artists of his life (Gene Kelly, Bertolt Brecht, and Rakim to name a few). Two characters-a slightly conservative 30-something and the other, a boisterous 8-bit Nintendo-playing teenager-battle for stage time through stories, dances, and theatrical devices that ultimately reveal that "real" is sometimes just a four letter word.
Boom Bap Tourism Trailer: www.vimeo.com/18414199
Makoto Hirano website: www.showtimeatthemakoto.org/
Director: Sarah Sanford
Dramaturg: Andrew Simonet
Sound Design: Mikaal Sulaimain
Scenic Design: Jebney Lewis
This project was made possibly by The Independence Foundation, The Wyncote Foundation, Dance Advance (Pew Charitable Trusts), Asian Arts Initiative, and the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival LAB Program.
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LocationKelly Strayhorn Theater (View)
5941 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
United States
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